Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
The world is noticing. Good. Under Modi, India has grown a spine but at the cost of an illiberalism that’s ~ 70% of the country unlike about 35% for Trumpism. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/01/18/narendra-modis-illiberalism-may-imperil-indias-economic-progress
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
The modern history of the Ayodhya temple has been laundered and the <35 set is too young to remember. 1990 Advani rath yatra was 34 years ago. I was 16. <35 set has no memory of just how ugly things got then, or what the current theater of creating a new nationalist identity is built on.
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp
this is a bit exaggerated I think. I have seen this illiberalism claim only from people in urban India. Modi is really popular among a good portion of rural and small town India. I might be biased 😅, because all my childhood was in Modiland
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Arjun
@ananthsridhar.eth
This reminded me of a *physical* fight between two sects of the same “caste” over ritual ownership at a temple in Kanchipuram few days ago. The aspiration to grow up to embrace the diversities is almost non-existent now and infact it has swung far right, a huge departure from Kalam’s inspiring 2020(s) vision.Sad!
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Om Malik
@ommalik
If anything his party was early at knowing how to use the social media to create a new image. Propaganda tactics were a gift of Soviet Union to Indian politician establishment. Internet just made it simpler.
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