Against fascism, racism & misogyny. Proud to call myself a rational liberal. I block trolls, Brexit liars, MAGA racists & all Sanghis, so whine somewhere else.
Apr 21, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
@Sydusm 1/x But if you recollect the tone & tenor of media coverage & public sentiment in the years prior to 2014, it was masterfully done. Drip by drip, the perception kept building that the government was basically a series of scams. Commonwealth Games, Coal-gate, 2G, it kept building.
@Sydusm 2/x That self-promoting martinet & useful idiot Anna Hazare and his dharna, Vinod Rai and his grandstanding, Baba Ramdev and his buffoonery, all of this intersected neatly with the Indian voter’s fervent desire for a strongman to ‘fix’ everything.
Aug 6, 2019 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
@pbmehta 1/x I feel the game is different here. #Modi & #AmitShah aren’t strategic geniuses - they are bullyboy street thugs with the usual incoherent anti-modernist crap that passes for #Sangh ideology, but with a masterful command of PR and media savvy.
@pbmehta 2/x This combined with the institutional capture that the #Sangh spent decades dreaming about, makes them lethal. I don’t think they have the slightest illusion that this will solve the #Kashmir problem - but the mistake is in thinking they care. This is in fact even better.
