While the Prime Minister tweeted his outrage at the insurrection at Capitol Hill, he has been silent on the Badaun rape of a 50-year-old woman in a temple.
How many farmers have died on the outskirts of Delhi, in the freezing cold, as they protest peacefully against the Modi government’s farm acts? At last count, 60.
The dear PM has felt no remorse or pain or shame. He carries on with his publicity routines while pretending to work
Not one tweet from our prolific tweeting PM.
The 56-inch strongman who does not have the courage to face India’s farmers.
He is helped immeasurably by a pusillanimous media, the bulk of which has been unable to cover the farmers’ protests with any semblance of professionalism.
Every day, we watch democracy cracking in India.
We have no cause for glee or shock at what’s happened in America.
Once again, their institutions stood up, even when they looked at their lowest.
@ranjona shows the mirror, but we refuse to see our ugly faces!
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Tarlochan Singh, an elderly farmer, summed up the mood, saying:
“It is not merely about a few legal infirmities in the laws. It is the philosophy of governance that will trigger a national crisis, a situation that will widen the conflict between the rich and the poor...
If this direction is not changed, we may be heading for civil war in this country. We have to understand the nature of the threat first; it is not about legalese, it is about life.”
“Everybody is going to be affected — the small businessmen, the agriculture workers, the consumers. We don’t need governments, courts and committees to tell us what our pain is.
Why is the government doing such a favour that will endanger our lives?
Psychological scientists Martin Reinmann and Philip Zimbardo came with an idea as to why we are capable of horrible acts.
In their 2011 paper," The Dark Side of Social Encounters", the authors states that two process are more important deindividualisation and dehumanisation.
Deindividualisation happens when we perceive as anonymous.
Dehumanisation happens when we stop seeing others as human beings. The authors explain dehumanisation as a "cortical cataract", a blurring of our perception. we stop being able to really see people
a dramatic example of dehumanising was seen in Hitler's genocidal propaganda, where he described Jewish people as "untermenschen" - subhumans.
The Nazis also compared other groups they targeted to animals, insects and diseases.
The BJP’s and RSS’s antisocial, antihuman policies need to strongly be condemned not because they are “bad for growth and GDP,” but because they are simply immoral and inhumane. theindiaforum.in/article/why-i-…
I also want to warn people who read such analyses that there is something called the “tyranny” of economists, who notoriously have “reduced a question that dogged political philosophers for centuries—about how much harm is acceptable in a society—to a math problem.”
It is frightening that the thrust of the Indian state and India’s elite today is to flatten all of our awe-inspiring diversity into misguided “one nation one system” absurdities.
Present excise duty on petrol is Rs.32.98, which, when UPA-2 left office was just Rs.9.48 per litre. In other words, excise duty on petrol is 348% higher now than in 2014.
Also, the present excise duty on diesel is Rs. 31.83 which has increased by 894% more than Rs.3.56 in 2014
Flood is always a rate problem. There are attempts to say that it is all about total quantities, yep, depressing to see such narratives from academia of Premier institutions without grappling practical side.
The chasm between research & real world in India are oceans apart
Then we should understand that we cannot create systems for once in bluemoon events.
Also no reservoir systems has endless capabilities, like all other things in the universe.
All systems we design & maintain with an acceptable risk criteria, this is a call of the society
Many of the expert engineers and doctors are bad communicators, they only know to converse with their peers. They struggle to explain the nuances.
Our decision makers are impatient to listen to the details and nuances because sometimes the details make their head spinning