Thread by @seshanm

#IndianDemocracy
Is Indian democracy in crisis under @narendramodi was the topic.

Hosted by journalist & film producer Steve Paikin. @spaikin

Watched this with interest because there were 4 panellists all Indians, with @ShekharGupta alone from India.

@spaikin did a decent job considering that his take basically depended on

* @BBC documentary on the Gujarat riots
* -ve Western reports on Indian democracy & press freedom.

Still he seemed quite objective, willing to listen even gently steering the debate to an opposite view.

@ShekharGupta was a disaster
* To a Q on his experience of Press freedom he rambled on about his long experience, hinting darkly, that he could be more negative but for not wanting to frighten young 'journos' & his thick skin.

* Asked about India's standing in the world he

launched off on another rambling tangent on Modi's retreat on the CAA, Farm Bill etc though it was not clear what he was trying to get at.

@NeetiNair the so-called historian from the University of Virginia, was so obviously a de-racinated woke who had never heard of the

Godhra burning of 57 Hindu, men, women & children which was the trigger for the 2002 riots, nor that Muslims were held responsible for that by the Courts.

Sanjay Ruperalia, Political Scientist, Toronto Metropolitan University and Vivek Dehejia, an

Economist, from the Carlton University, both seemed balanced and nuanced in their observations.

What struck me was that while all four were Hindu, none spoke up for Hinduism, the Hindu Rashtra, whether paradoxically it was the minority(200 million) Muslims who were favoured?

Hindus across the world must realise that:

* A 5000+ years old, world's oldest civilisation is being rubbished across the world, particularly by Islamo-Leftist Western & Indian academia and think-tanks.

* That such narratives have gone largely undefended.

* That credibility to the anti-Hindu narrative derives maximum mileage from:

* Leftists who are Hindu only in name

* From a minority of Dalits who are virulently anti-Hindu

* From the ISI & the Chinese who have been steadily exploiting fissures & weaknesses in our society.

* From a political opposition which is hitting back because it has been made irrelevant.
* And Islamists with alien allegiance, and perennial supremacist hate for Hindus.
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