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#Opinion: India’s #bulldozer raj is as far as we can get from nation building

Nations forged in devastation resemble petty mafias of muscle and flex. Neither a new politics, nor a vibrant economy can flourish in this morass.
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@professor_sud writes

#Opinion: Emboldened by the ricocheting Bulldozer Raj, BJP leaders are on record, urging state authorities to identify and demolish the illegal properties of “rioters” and “Bangladeshis and Rohingyas”. scroll.in/a/1023626

@professor_sud writes

While there is palpable confusion and a lack of direction in the economic sphere, there is more clarity in politics. India is being moulded into a Hindu majoritarian state, writes @professor_sud scroll.in/a/1023626

#Opinion: Without a constructive, developmental, progressive worldview, spaces and nations forged in devastation begin to resemble petty mafias of muscle and flex, writes @professor_sud

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#Opinion: Bharatiya Janata Party regime in states and at the Centre is flexing its muscles again. A presumptive prime minister has returned to power in Uttar Pradesh on the power of the bulldozer, an election motif, writes @professor_sud

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#Opinion: Bulldozers, laws such as the CAA, attacks on Muslim dress, food & modes of worship,& the subversion of institutions such as the courts & media that could question this lurching to Hindu rashtra, are all part of the design, writes @professor_sud

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#Opinion: The bulldozer is an apt, but also problematic symbol of this #NewIndia. Forget about the minorities and dissenters here, as the nationalists want us to do, writes @professor_sud

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#Opinion: Even for the 85% that this model claims to represent, the bulldozer largely symbolises hate and destruction. It can uproot, and terrorise. But where is the vision of what comes after?

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