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Mar 10 4 tweets 1 min read
Anuradha Bhasin
Executive editor, The Kashmir Times

"The newspaper has been an independent voice in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, weathering several tumultuous decades of war and military occupation. But it may not survive Mr. Modi"

Guest essay for the New York Times

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His repressive media policies are destroying Kashmiri journalism, intimidating media outlets into serving as government mouthpieces and creating an information vacuum in our region

Now Mr. Modi is taking steps that could replicate this disturbing model on a national scale

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Modi's Hindu-chauvinist movement has normalized intolerance and violence against Indian Muslims

India’s once rambunctious press is under pressure, with journalists surveilled and jailed, the government using strong-arm tactics against media outlets to ensure favorable coverage
In January, draft amendments to digital media guidelines were introduced that would essentially allow the government to block any content Modi government doesn’t like.

It is Modi’s Final Assault on India’s Press Freedom
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Shekhar Gupta🙌

Now think, which other editor can dare say that about the right-wing?
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Q) Why is the international media critical of India's declining democracy? (1 x 20 marks)

1. Almost entire Indian mainstream media is silenced 🔕

2. No editorials, no Op-Eds can dare to be directly critical of the federal government

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4. Almost all the opposition political leaders of national popularity are attacked with agencies in the name of investigation

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RSS has been compared to various organizations, what's your experience?

[BJP Voters and Sanghis - Don't Vote]
𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, a 22 year old Muslim who admired Hitler's hatred of the Jews and persistently wrote to Hitler to express his admiration and his desire for Hitler's Nazi Party to collaborate with Islam Image
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐭𝐳𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐥 (SS) a Nazi paramilitary group, founded in 1925

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Nazi beliefs and ideas about race shaped all aspects of everyday life and politics in Nazi Germany.

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Nazis believed that they had to protect Germans from inferior races, they had to remain racially pure

To the Nazis, Jewish people were the biggest threat to the Aryan race.
Hitler and Nazis claimed that the “Jewish race” was especially dangerous. They believed that Jews were parasites that were destroying the Aryan race

This false and prejudiced belief was why the Nazis persecuted Jewish people

First, they tried to force Jews to leave Germany
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𝐑𝐒𝐒 and 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝
Different organizations same strategy

🚨Advocates of anti-secular, non democratic society
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Inculcate a sense of nationalism based on a common FAITH
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