....and will lose much needed $$$ and jobs in the process. of course, with trump being trump, anything is possible.
his ego over everything.
Exactly.
so u need a "communal, medieval, occupied, closed, ancient paada paada" political and godi media? wow
Right now, everything that secularists and liberals feel that is against their opinion is called that. Even me. As someone of an Indian faith, I am also not allowed to be proud of my heritage and shared philosophy since ancient times. If Hindus show cultural pride, they are communal fascists, if Owaisi screams death to Hindus, he is secular liberal. If I agree with Hindus, I am a brainwashed communal fascist too OR some go to the length of proving me as a fake.
If this is the meaning of communal, then I would prefer such a communal and ancient "pada pada" media.
There are always modifications that can be made. Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains have had no problem historically to comply with national government laws. They don't demand political influence in the name of some foreign land or foreign belief unlike Abrahamic religions which have a history of colonization way outside their sphere of origin.
Hindu nationalism did not rise until communist/leftist policies of government started appeasing "minority" appeasement and started giving special political symbolism to certain specific communities.
chinese banned religion. try doing that in india. it would hurt the present govt the most.
try imposing an emergency like indira did. before comparing with china, try to understand that our fundamentals, our societies and our pluralistic nature is opposite of what china is today.
Before you start drawing literal comparisons, you must understand why Chinese did what they had to do. They did that because faith had become institutionalised with influential leaders that undermined the national government. In order to ensure that there is no foreign intellectual and controlling mechanism penetrating into China, The CPC banned religion. However, today it has allowed people to believe in what they want as long as they comply with government rules.
Which means: things such as 'kill, convert, influence' etc are edited out of books of organised religions before they enter China. Fair enough for their society.
None of the Indian faiths and some communities such as Jews and Zoroastrians, interfere with government rules.
Let me give you an example of why I am making this difference: Zoroastrian high priest agreed to allow electric cremation as an alternate to Towers of Silence to contribute to the society. Many Hindus and even us now use electric incinerators because excessive usage of wood is affecting the environment.
Can you imagine Muslims or Christians agreeing with the the government's request of using electric cremation? There will be mass riots and anarchy across the country if they were even so much as requested. In China, that is never going to happen.
However, there are ways to be authoritarian by slightly modifying the social aspect of the governance model of China. Let there be social freedom upto a slight limit but everything else, such as infrastructure, healthcare, defence, industry etc can be managed like China. No one, not even Indians of foreign religions, want to remain backward after all.
All want good education, healthcare, jobs, infrastructure, security etc.
But our current system of democracy has now started to negatively affect the country.
We need to be more result-oriented rather than process-oriented and appreciate what other countries do better than us.
China is hands-down far ahead of us in administrative affairs and managing national strategic interests. We may have disagreements with them but give them credit where due.
The age of super power ship is long gone. Today almost 10 countries have nuclear weapons, ready to annihilate each other several times.
Today's warfare is digital and economic, biological and social engineering.
What US does with Iraq, Somalia, Libya etc is just test demonstrations to sell weapons. Those weapons are only to be used against pawns who can be killed which are of no consequence to their masters.
Think about it; countries such as USA, Russia and China could hack into any country's national sewage treatment systems and damage it to poison environment. They can use things like STUXNET to overload nuclear power plants, influence digital government records across the world and alter election results, change the profile of high value targets of an enemy state with identities of those whom they want to kill etc.
That, is a superpower. Ability to be at the cutting edge of technology to destroy enemies with minimal damage.
