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Compare these to MSM..... totally fake and biased are our presstitutes of ABP, NDTV, IndiaToday
@magudi This is why I am confident. Hope you understand Hindi buddy otherwise will give a translation
Is BJP more focused on local media and Lutyans focused on National media ?
This is why I am confident. Hope you understand Hindi buddy otherwise will give a translation
I just hope NDA wins even if with a simple majority bhai, otherwise imagine what will be the jubilation of sickulars,intellectuals especially paid media.It's end game for us Sanghis
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Direct incisive action vs trickle down strategy.
If nov 5th - 8th turns out like we say it will, it will be clear for all to see the vested interests. This will actually work to BJP's favour in the long run for other elections.
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They didn't said ad on news papers but on internets. they opened dawn web page and they had nitish's ad running on the side. Do you remember I posted a picture of it few days ago asking you guys if you guys also see it while surfing pdfMurican Sanghi's trending "WorldVegan Day"
Believe it or not, BJP did a hitjob saying there was Nitish add in Pakistani news paper. Seems to have worked quiet well on the ground
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Lutyens media is the more civilized, anglicized, well-off journos and socialites who think themselves as the shining light of Indian intellectuals. For them, they are the de-facto policymakers in India ..... reason.... because they are self declared liberals, seculars and obviously... INTELLECTUALS...
To hell with the rest of the 99.99% of the nation.....
Also, other factors like foreign funding, Congressi/leftist ideology (JNU pass outs), anti-Hindus, etc..... Its the perfect cocktail of anti-BJP, anti-Hinduism that India can offer.
On the other hand, BJP's media policy is.........
BJP IT cell is non existent
BJP media cell is also non existent for all practical intents and puposes
Add to that bunch of comp illiterate egoists heading their IT cell , imagine what Cong and other parties would have done with this much natural support on SM
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Seriously ! The government needs to have better spokespersons, especially to deal with this kind of a situation. Jaitley should be relieved of the Finance ministry since his relatively tepid performance there affects his image. Better to stick with another ministry, maybe even HRD or law.
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I did believe that first, but you have to agree there is something when most major local newspapers print Modi in their front pages before every phase ? I find this level of local media support......unnatural
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They were expecting a big fat pay-off from Modi....direct money, posh favours and accompanying him on all visits etc etc...
Chai-walla did not oblige and now even many "neutral" sorts have this vendetta against him....because their cushy idealized existence.....far from village hate and squalor....is under threat.
They will have a good life in places like US where the poor represent a quarter of population, not India where they are a large critical mass who are tired of waiting being passed around like dirty laundry.
There is a marked revolution going on against elitists from the ground....Nov 8th will confirm it....I am quite certain.
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Indian Right has risen. Now who’s the ‘stupid party’?
November 1, 2015, 12:04 AM IST Swapan Dasgupta in Right & Wrong | India, NaMo, Narendra Modi,World |
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Some years ago, while researching for an article on Australia, I came upon an observation by Pru Goward, a journalist-turned-politician of the ruling Liberal Party, that has a bearing on today’s
Indian politics. “Conservative governments,” she wrote, “don’t have natural supporters who are articulate and philosophical writers. The conservative intellectual group is very small in Australia. So the politicians are lonely and they are joked about all the time.”
What Goward observed about Australia can be said to be true for much of today’s democratic world. In Britain, the Conservatives have for long been derided as the “stupid party” and even the “nasty party”. Margaret Thatcher was denied an honorary doctorate by the dons of Oxford University — an astonishing act of petty-mindedness. Today, the left-inclined cartoonists paint prime minister David Cameron and his chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne as variants of the upper-class twits portrayed in Monty Python skits. In the US, Ronald Reagan, arguably the architect of one of the most transformative presidencies after Franklin Roosevelt, was unendingly mocked for his ‘simple’ beliefs that were said to have been derived more from John Wayne movies than the tomes of Adam Smith — a caricature that was also extended to George W Bush.
In India, thanks to Jawaharlal Nehru’s self-image as the enlightened, cosmopolitan socialist, his conservative opponents were painted as provincial bumpkins riddled with obscurantist priorities that ranged from cow protection to Ayurveda. To this was added the social disdain of the ‘progressive’ for the dhoti-clad bania, the supposed epitome of a commercially minded ‘Hindu Right.’ When the Cambridge-educated Congress MP taunted the ‘chaiwalla’ credentials of Narendra Modi he was simply mirroring attitudes the Nehruvian order tried to implant as common sense. This perverse common sense often masquerades as the modern alternative to India’s larger cultural inheritance.
The appeal of patrician socialism may well have diminished over the decades, but the projection of the ideological ‘Other’ as stupid, socially regressive and aesthetically unsound has persisted. Indeed, it has made a dramatic re-entry into the public discourse in recent months following the outbreak of the culture wars. The editorial pages of newspapers are replete with outbursts against the simple-minded ‘Hindu Right’ that has failed to understand the metaphors of Hinduism, the complexities of the historical process, diverse food habits and the ‘idea of India’. In a recent article, a historian who made his mark in the echo chamber of Jawaharlal Nehru University asserted that the “Hindutva brigade has… failed to produce any notable professional historian. The new developments in the discipline have passed them by.” In short, the intellectual ecosystem of the Indian right is seriously deficient and unworthy of being taken seriously by “professional” scholars.
That the Indian Right has been preoccupied with political activism rather than creating an alternative intellectual tradition isn’t in doubt. However, much of this failure can be attributed to the fact that the scholastic environment in Indian universities since the late 1960s has been unrelentingly hostile to anything inimical to the liberal and Marxist paradigm. The element of group-think was so marked that non-conformists such as the writer Nirad Chaudhury and the economist Jagdish Bhagwati found living in India quite suffocating: they became intellectual refugees from progressivism. Traditional disciplines centred on classical studies underwent such derision and neglect that Sanskrit studies survive today courtesy institutions in the West. The result: India’s ‘traditional intellectuals’ were completely marginalized from the intellectual mainstream.
It is worth remembering that this systematic destruction of traditional knowledge systems didn’t take place only under British rule; the trend persisted in post-independent India under the spurious guise of implanting a ‘scientific temper’.
That despite the absence of a level playing field, the Indian Right with a culturalist agenda (and commitment to economic deregulation) has grown exponentially over the past decades is significant. It suggests that when proffered a real choice, Indians are more inclined to put their faith in rooted traditions — particularly those grounded in traditional value systems, the family structure, collective historical memory and what can loosely be called common decencies.
For too long, Indian conservatism has been at the receiving end of condescension and caricature. It may now be time to turn the notions of stupidity upside down.
Indian Right has risen. Now who’s the ‘stupid party’? - TOI Blogs
November 1, 2015, 12:04 AM IST Swapan Dasgupta in Right & Wrong | India, NaMo, Narendra Modi,World |
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Some years ago, while researching for an article on Australia, I came upon an observation by Pru Goward, a journalist-turned-politician of the ruling Liberal Party, that has a bearing on today’s
Indian politics. “Conservative governments,” she wrote, “don’t have natural supporters who are articulate and philosophical writers. The conservative intellectual group is very small in Australia. So the politicians are lonely and they are joked about all the time.”
What Goward observed about Australia can be said to be true for much of today’s democratic world. In Britain, the Conservatives have for long been derided as the “stupid party” and even the “nasty party”. Margaret Thatcher was denied an honorary doctorate by the dons of Oxford University — an astonishing act of petty-mindedness. Today, the left-inclined cartoonists paint prime minister David Cameron and his chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne as variants of the upper-class twits portrayed in Monty Python skits. In the US, Ronald Reagan, arguably the architect of one of the most transformative presidencies after Franklin Roosevelt, was unendingly mocked for his ‘simple’ beliefs that were said to have been derived more from John Wayne movies than the tomes of Adam Smith — a caricature that was also extended to George W Bush.
In India, thanks to Jawaharlal Nehru’s self-image as the enlightened, cosmopolitan socialist, his conservative opponents were painted as provincial bumpkins riddled with obscurantist priorities that ranged from cow protection to Ayurveda. To this was added the social disdain of the ‘progressive’ for the dhoti-clad bania, the supposed epitome of a commercially minded ‘Hindu Right.’ When the Cambridge-educated Congress MP taunted the ‘chaiwalla’ credentials of Narendra Modi he was simply mirroring attitudes the Nehruvian order tried to implant as common sense. This perverse common sense often masquerades as the modern alternative to India’s larger cultural inheritance.
The appeal of patrician socialism may well have diminished over the decades, but the projection of the ideological ‘Other’ as stupid, socially regressive and aesthetically unsound has persisted. Indeed, it has made a dramatic re-entry into the public discourse in recent months following the outbreak of the culture wars. The editorial pages of newspapers are replete with outbursts against the simple-minded ‘Hindu Right’ that has failed to understand the metaphors of Hinduism, the complexities of the historical process, diverse food habits and the ‘idea of India’. In a recent article, a historian who made his mark in the echo chamber of Jawaharlal Nehru University asserted that the “Hindutva brigade has… failed to produce any notable professional historian. The new developments in the discipline have passed them by.” In short, the intellectual ecosystem of the Indian right is seriously deficient and unworthy of being taken seriously by “professional” scholars.
That the Indian Right has been preoccupied with political activism rather than creating an alternative intellectual tradition isn’t in doubt. However, much of this failure can be attributed to the fact that the scholastic environment in Indian universities since the late 1960s has been unrelentingly hostile to anything inimical to the liberal and Marxist paradigm. The element of group-think was so marked that non-conformists such as the writer Nirad Chaudhury and the economist Jagdish Bhagwati found living in India quite suffocating: they became intellectual refugees from progressivism. Traditional disciplines centred on classical studies underwent such derision and neglect that Sanskrit studies survive today courtesy institutions in the West. The result: India’s ‘traditional intellectuals’ were completely marginalized from the intellectual mainstream.
It is worth remembering that this systematic destruction of traditional knowledge systems didn’t take place only under British rule; the trend persisted in post-independent India under the spurious guise of implanting a ‘scientific temper’.
That despite the absence of a level playing field, the Indian Right with a culturalist agenda (and commitment to economic deregulation) has grown exponentially over the past decades is significant. It suggests that when proffered a real choice, Indians are more inclined to put their faith in rooted traditions — particularly those grounded in traditional value systems, the family structure, collective historical memory and what can loosely be called common decencies.
For too long, Indian conservatism has been at the receiving end of condescension and caricature. It may now be time to turn the notions of stupidity upside down.
Indian Right has risen. Now who’s the ‘stupid party’? - TOI Blogs
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Phase 1 8 for NDA is impossible, at least bare minimum most conservative is 15
phase 3 its 35-15 conservative estimates
Phase 4 will cross 40 for NDA
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