Modi presses ahead with $1.8 billion parliament renovation even as Covid-19 ravages India

[Varunastra]

The Indian diaspora in US consists of a higher percentage of wealthy Indians migrating to US with all their wealth that includes the property and other wealth. The economic migrants comes into a separate category.

And there is investment migration to US also, this is not good actually for the native country when educated and rich class leaves the country of origin.

‘Indian rich top world in looking to leave country’ - Times of India

India Business News: The Covid may have put international travel plans on the backburner but it has not stopped high net-worth individuals (HNWIs) from shopping for new co

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

I do understand these points, the reason I brought this up is because the above poster constantly brings up Indian inferiority in almost every thread and shows the supposedly superior East Asians(like Chinese Japanese) as superior than us South Asians.
Criticism is ok but the blatant racism and inferiority trying to be spread is nauseating from one's own countryman.
It's a shut up post for those people who can't respect the Flag they are representing and take pride in it. Better not show the flag if you can't uphold it's dignity.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

I do understand these points, the reason I brought this up is because the above poster constantly brings up Indian inferiority in almost every thread and shows the supposedly superior East Asians(like Chinese Japanese) as superior than us South Asians.
Criticism is ok but the blatant racism and inferiority trying to be spread is nauseating from one's own countryman.
It's a shut up post for those people who can't respect the Flag they are representing and take pride in it. Better not show the flag if you can't uphold it's dignity.

If you put yourself in my show, Pakistan faces the same situation with respect to Indians, its a common denominator to make thyself look good then others, and it is more about the success than its about the superiority.

Indians in general have a higher sense of pride and patriotism, to put it subtly.

 

[Varunastra]

If you put yourself in my show, Pakistan faces the same situation with respect to Indians, its a common denominator to make thyself look good then others, and it is more about the success than its about the superiority.

Indians in general have a higher sense of pride and patriotism, to put it subtly.

True about this being human behavior but you wouldn't expect this coming from your own countrymen right?, not in all posts atleast. To the point you start sounding more like the ambassador of a foreign country than a citizen of the one whose flag you hold. Sometimes it's better to give such people a reality check on their blind hate.

 

[gulli]

Firstly, the country should dedicate every resource, especially its massive military, to fight COVID, especially at a time when other countries are also helping India in this.

Secondly, building free blindness and cancer hospitals and building good quality homes for the homeless and slum people is of more importance than this project of "Indianness" vanity.

Thirdly, those 35 percent Indians employed by NASA are a myth. A myth like many other beliefs in India.

We are happy believe 'myth' you live your homegrown realities.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

True about this being human behavior but you wouldn't expect this coming from your own countrymen right?, not in all posts atleast. To the point you start sounding more like the ambassador of a foreign country than a citizen of the one whose flag you hold. Sometimes it's better to give such people a reality check on their blind hate.

What he replied to the initial post was right, bragging that NASA has a large percentage of Indian Americans, and this was not true. Read umpteenth times Indians makes about 40% of NASA...not true as replied by the poster.

And he just posted the facts and figures, the lower IQ jibe was not required though for Indians.

 

[jamahir]

We are happy believe 'myth' you live your homegrown realities.

I didn't understand.

 

[Dalit]

Fake 56 inch chest is only interested in large statues and buildings.

 

[Varunastra]

What he replied to the initial post was right, bragging that NASA has a large percentage of Indian Americans, and this was not true. Read umpteenth times Indians makes about 40% of NASA...not true as replied by the poster.

And he just posted the facts and figures, the lower IQ jibe was not required though for Indians.

Exactly the low iq jibe is what I'm talking of here, such such shows of inferiority in each and every post showing your own country and countrymen to be inferior. Anyone who reads his post will know his motive, it's not like Indians aren't top or we have lots of progress /ground to cover, It's simply Indians are not present, east asians are high iq, you Indians have nothing to be proud of kind of posts all the time. You can expect this from other countrymen like you rightly said in your previous post, it's human behavior to show one's own country as superior /more successful but you can't help but reply if your own countryman is doing the same. Criticism is ok, we are a developing country and our people in India and abroad have much to achieve, we shouldn't believe the blind success stories that all Indians are doing good or that we are 40% of Nasa definitely not. But the opposite of the spectrum of showing only negativity, inferiority of your own country is worse.

 

[jamahir]

Indians in general have a higher sense of pride and patriotism, to put it subtly.

And that's a problem. Many Indians don't question the wrongs in their society and blindly follow a vague but in-your-face sense of patriotism.

As example, there was a recent incident where an Hindu woman teacher ( Upper Caste most likely ) was having a Zoom class with her students who happened to be Dalit and other Lower Castes. She somehow decided to play the national anthem which the students did not stand up for ( in respect ) and she chanted "Bharat Mata ki jai" which they did not repeat. This Upper Caste teacher got furious and started abusing the students and their families. She did not think for a second that these Lower Caste students might not have felt a sense of genuine patriotism because the country had let them down, that various elements in society had oppressed them for the 74 years of existence of modern, "Independent" India. The teacher carried on abusing them in her Upper Caste privileged way, not caring for the oppressed life of her students.

Irony is that this teacher was from the humanities and social sciences section. Sad to say but she is the typical "patriot" in India, not really working for the genuine betterment of India.

Article here.

@UDAYCAMPUS

 

[khansaheeb]

Modi presses ahead with $1.8 billion parliament renovation even as Covid-19 ravages India
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/julia-hollingsworth
By Julia Hollingsworth and Swati Gupta, CNN

Updated 11:40 PM ET, Thu May 6, 2021


New Delhi (CNN)While hospitals plead for life-saving oxygen and Covid-19 patients die in their thousands, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing ahead with a $1.8 billion parliamentary revamp -- including a new home for the country's leader.

The decision to continue with the project in the capital, New Delhi, has infuriated the public and opposition politicians, who have pointed to the apparent disconnect in pouring millions into a construction project when the country is struggling with its worst-ever public health crisis.

The pricey renovation, known as the Central Vista Redevelopment Project, has been categorized as an "essential service," meaning construction is allowed to continue even when most other building projects have been halted.

Construction work underway on the Central Vista redevelopment project at Rajpath on April 17, 2021 in New Delhi, India.

Two citizens -- including one with Covid-19 whose mother also has the virus -- lodged a case with the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to try to halt construction, which has continued even while the capital is in lockdown.

The petitioners argue the parliament buildings don't constitute an essential service and construction work could even become a Covid super-spreader event, according to special leave petition filed by lawyer Nitin Saluja. Workers are continuing to be ferried from their labor camp to the construction site, according to the document.

The High Court offered to hear the case later this month, but petitioners took the matter to the Supreme Court, arguing the lower court had "failed to appreciate the gravity" of the situation.

"Since there is a public health emergency in the matter, any delay could be detrimental to the larger public interest," Saluja wrote to the Supreme Court. Saluja said the case will most likely be heard Friday.

India has reported more than 3,000 Covid-19 deaths in each of the past few days. The country accounted for a quarter of global coronavirus fatalities over the past week, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO) weekly Covid-19 report.

Vanity project?
Even before the second wave, Central Vista had attracted controversy, with critics saying the redevelopment would come at the cost of history and heritage. But opposition has become more heated recently, with politicians slamming the plan as a vanity project.

Proponents of the 86-acre (35-hectare) revamp say it is necessary as the current 100-year-old buildings are not fit for purpose.
"The launch of the construction of the Parliament House of India, with the idea of Indianness by Indians, is one of the most important milestones of our democratic traditions," Modi said in December at the laying of the building's foundation stone. "We the people of India will construct this new Parliament building together."

An estimated 46,700 people are expected to be temporarily employed during construction, according to minutes released last week of an April expert appraisal committee meeting.

That meeting estimated the expansion of the parliament building and construction of a new parliament building will be completed in November 2022, while the Prime Minister's residence is set to be finished in December 2022. The entire project is set to be completed by the end of 2026.

The $1.8 billion project was given environmental approval from an expert panel of the Environment Ministry earlier this year, essentially giving the project the green light.

But as coronavirus cases have soared, so too has the backlash to Modi's project.

"People are dying of Covid but (Prime Minister Modi's) priority is the Central Vista project," tweeted Yashwant Sinha, the former minister of finance and external affairs. "Should we not be building hospitals instead? How much more price the nation must pay for electing a meglomaniac?"

Earlier this week, opposition MP Rahul Gandhi said: "The (Prime Minister's) ego is bigger than people's lives."

In a previous tweet, Gandhi said: "Central Vista - not essential. Central (Government) with a vision - essential." Community Party of India's Sitaram Yechury called the move "grotesque."

The criticism has gone beyond politicians. On Twitter, some people have even drawn comparisons between Modi and Nero, the Roman emperor who, according to legend, fiddled while Rome burned.

The project is just the latest mark against Modi, who has been criticized for his handling of the second wave. Even as cases skyrocketed, critics say he underplayed the risk and continued to hold mass political rallies ahead of state elections.

Modi presses ahead with $1.8 billion parliament renovation even as Covid-19 ravages India | CNN

While hospitals plead for life-saving oxygen and Covid-19 patients die in their thousands, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing ahead with a $1.8 billion parliamentary revamp -- including a new home for the country's leader.

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Maybe Modi plans to bury the dead under the works or under the carpet?

 

[Varunastra]

And that's a problem. Many Indians don't question the wrongs in their society and blindly follow a vague but in-your-face sense of patriotism.

As example, there was a recent incident where an Hindu woman teacher ( Upper Caste most likely ) was having a Zoom class with her students who happened to be Dalit and other Lower Castes. She somehow decided to play the national anthem which the students did not stand up for ( in respect ) and she chanted "Bharat Mata ki jai" which they did not repeat. This Upper Caste teacher got furious and started abusing the students and their families. She did not think for a second that these Lower Caste students might not have felt a sense of genuine patriotism because the country had let them down, that various elements in society had oppressed them for the 74 years of existence of modern, "Independent" India. The teacher carried on abusing them in her Upper Caste privileged way, not caring for the oppressed life of her students.

Irony is that this teacher was from the humanities and social sciences section. Sad to say but she is the typical "patriot" in India, not really working for the genuine betterment of India.

Article here.

@UDAYCAMPUS

The problem is both, you can't be blind in your patriotism that you can't see the wrongs happening in your country, ofcourse only when you accept the wrongs can you make it right and make a better country, nor can you be so consumed in your hate, inferiority, criticism that you refuse to see any positive or respect your country.
The baton of wrong behavior goes to both here, if the students (if not from so backward societies that they don't know how to respect the national anthem /symbols) deliberately did not show respect then it's no excuse, it's your duty to do so, disrespect to our national symbols can land you in jail. Then to the teacher instead of calmly explaining to the students what they should have done starts hurling abuses and if she really had that upper caste mindset to do so then she is also very much in the wrong here.
We as Indians need to correct mix of Patriotism and Criticism. Being in extremes of either won't do.

 

[Leishangthem]

He definitely meant Indian by ethnicity not by citizenship which is represented in Asian American

It's a known fact that Indians make up one of the wealthiest ethnicities in the US, check median incomes here
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/asian-americans-indians-in-the-u-s/
All Asians - $85,000
Indians - $119,000
Point to note -
Us born Indian Americans - $104,000
Foreign born Indian American - $120,000

Indians - $119,000
Point to note -
Us born Indian Americans - $104,000
Foreign born Indian American - $120,000

Do you know which other asian ameircan ethnicity is very well off? Filipino Americans 90K USD +
and do you know what's common between them? the rich elite lot from both these nations has been migrating to the US for decades. Those two ethnicities' wealth are based on wealth transfer not wealth creation.Other than that,the remaining Indian diaspora in US are basically H1B1 Visa holder with job security right from entry.
Meanwhile,other immigrants from East Asia like the Chinese,korean,mongolian immigrants consisted of piss poor folk that start off from janitor jobs to takeout stations .

India have nothing going on at home so they can do nothing but seek solace from some flattering by the American overlords.

While in reality,some "other" unacclaimed ethnicity has been hard carrying US ?

While Indian goes on parroting that Indians are the most successful beings ever because they managed to serves white imperialism institutions as CEOs in US ! Meanwhile Chinese ethnicity people has been founding one globe-trotting firm after another for the US-NVIDIA,YAHOO,ZOOM and more making trillions of dollars for the US economy . And Indians gloats about being the most successful ethnicity in the US.

I do understand these points, the reason I brought this up is because the above poster constantly brings up Indian inferiority in almost every thread and shows the supposedly superior East Asians(like Chinese Japanese) as superior than us South Asians.
Criticism is ok but the blatant racism and inferiority trying to be spread is nauseating from one's own countryman.
It's a shut up post for those people who can't respect the Flag they are representing and take pride in it. Better not show the flag if you can't uphold it's dignity.

? what do you mean supposedly? Don't you understand the state of India and the state of the nations you are comparing against ?and how they conduct themselves in comparison to Indians? But I guess you don't comprehend.

If you do serious study ,even say economics masters,the concept of productive and hardworking ethnicity is well defined which includes Japanese,chinese ,koreans .You can't shrug off these topics in economics because it doesn't cater to your glass ego since it doesn't support Indians' super ethnicity agenda, much of the world sees Indians differently than the notion that Indians holds for themselves bc of their own self-imposed perception.
Actual better ethnicity wouldn't gloat about being master race like Whites or be self aggrandize itself like Indians in most indescribable ways.

You mean not disrespecting flag is akin to being deluded and preaching the hogwash that Indian disinfo trolls parrot in Internet?You mean debunking Indian fake propaganda like I just did is what destroying Indian dignity? not the very embarrassing crap that hoards of sheeps from India preaches?(like the 2 cases already evident in this thread).

I

 

[Varunastra]

Do you know which other asian ameircan ethnicity is very well off? Filipino Americans 90K USD +
and do you know what's common between them? the rich elite lot from both these nations has been migrating to the US for decades. Those two ethnicities' wealth are based on wealth transfer not wealth creation.Other than that,the remaining Indian diaspora in US are basically H1B1 Visa holder with job security right from entry.
Meanwhile,other immigrants from East Asia like the Chinese,korean,mongolian immigrants consisted of piss poor folk that start off from janitor jobs to takeout stations .

India have nothing going on at home so they can do nothing but seek solace from some flattering by the American overlords.

While in reality,some "other" unacclaimed ethnicity has been hard carrying US ?

While Indian goes on parroting that Indians are the most successful beings ever because they managed to serves white imperialism institutions as CEOs in US ! Meanwhile Chinese ethnicity people has been founding one globe-trotting firm after another for the US-NVIDIA,YAHOO,ZOOM and more making trillions of dollars for the US economy . And Indians gloats about being the most successful ethnicity in the US.




? what do you mean supposedly? Don't you understand the state of India and the state of the nations you are comparing against ?and how they conduct themselves in comparison to Indians? But I guess you don't comprehend.

If you do serious study ,even say economics masters,the concept of productive and hardworking ethnicity is well defined which includes Japanese,chinese ,koreans .You can't shrug off these topics in economics because it doesn't cater to your glass ego since it doesn't support Indians' super ethnicity agenda, much of the world sees Indians differently than the notion that Indians holds for themselves bc of their own self-imposed perception.
Actual better ethnicity wouldn't gloat about being master race like Whites or be self aggrandize itself like Indians in most indescribable ways.

You mean not disrespecting flag is akin to being deluded and preaching the hogwash that Indian disinfo trolls parrot in Internet?You mean debunking Indian fake propaganda like I just did is what destroying Indian dignity? not the very embarrassing crap that hoards of sheeps from India preaches?(like the 2 cases already evident in this thread).

I

Wealth transfer? yeah right!! That's what you're hate filled eyes will see, most Indians in US are self made who needed to work hard to be where they are. They weren't born with a silver spoon, they might have been middle class(lower included) but middle class isn't rich. If only rich indians were migrating they wouldn't be working for Google, microsoft lol. Many had to work from the bottom so you see stereotypes like Indian uber drivers in America but their children will be studying in ivy leagues thank you very much!

No one's claiming Indians are the most successful ever and there is no super ethnicity agenda here, it's you blind hatred to show Indian as inferior that I am bashing! Showing your own homeland Manipur as inferior than Chinese/Japanese? I don't know how you are enjoying this hate/inferiority mongering. I can give examples of back before colonization when the subcontinent had a much larger share of world economy or say look North Koreans are doing so poorly so all Koreans s*uck, it's the likes of you who wouldn't look at positives and go to baseless racism and hate towards one community for which purpose I fail to comprehend. Atleast realize you are bashing your own state Manipur by these rants if you can't think for our whole country! Respecting the flag means being critical when necessary and supporting /being hopeful for the country as default.
Don't akin your mindless India bashing/racism towards Indians as a favor being done for our country!

 

[Leishangthem]

Wealth transfer? yeah right!! That's what you're hate filled eyes will see, most Indians in US are self made who needed to work hard to be where they are. They weren't born with a silver spoon, they might have been middle class(lower included) but middle class isn't rich. If only rich indians were migrating they wouldn't be working for Google, microsoft lol. Many had to work from the bottom so you see stereotypes like Indian uber drivers in America but their children will be studying in ivy leagues thank you very much!

No one's claiming Indians are the most successful ever and there is no super ethnicity agenda here, it's you blind hatred to show Indian as inferior that I am bashing! Showing your own homeland Manipur as inferior than Chinese/Japanese? I don't know how you are enjoying this hate/inferiority mongering. I can give examples of back before colonization when the subcontinent had a much larger share of world economy or say look North Koreans are doing so poorly so all Koreans s*uck, it's the likes of you who wouldn't look at positives and go to baseless racism and hate towards one community for which purpose I fail to comprehend. Atleast realize you are bashing your own state Manipur by these rants if you can't think for our whole country! Respecting the flag means being critical when necessary and supporting /being hopeful for the country as default.
Don't akin your mindless India bashing/racism towards Indians as a favor being done for our country!

you clearly suffer form some severe case of denial,Indian and Filipino the two wealthiest communities both has a history of wealthy folk migrating to the US,two of the most backward nations in Asia ,and Indians comprises of 3/4th of all h1b visa holders in US ,they have job securities.
For people like u reality is harsh .

I can give examples of back before colonization when the subcontinent had a much larger share of world economy or say look North Koreans are doing so poorly so all Koreans s*uck, it's the likes of you who wouldn't look at positiv

Before colonization,there was no India,it was a bunch of Independent kingdoms and there would have been no India without colonization. The world was taken back by the middle kingdom's grandeure but much of the ancients recorded Indian subcontinent region as backward ,poor,savage with nothing of aesthetic.

Don't Insult north koreans like that,they have one of the highest IQ in the world,these are even better human resource ,with more discipline, regimentation,refined and strive than their southern counterparts.Pyongyang makes Delhi seem like just another slum,it's cleaner,safer with lesser crime,and more pristine.They managed great feat to safeguard their sovereignty while much wealthier western proponents of West in Middle east, perished. Even their missile system is ahead of India's.They can cripple India with cyber attack.Based on Indigenous tech,India wouldn't even win a war with NK.Now north koreans are better off than average Indians with free electricity,food,education,transport . Without criminal US and its puppet's sanctions it would have been economic jauggernaut.

And you can go support the hogwash that you prefer,me and my kin were never into all those crap antics.We never went on all those fake news rAmpage or behave like those sheeps.
My state has nothing to do with Indian policies,Indian political system is majoritan based,we never had a voice,we just get rag dolled in policies Made for Bihar or Gujarat or Assam.We take no blame for the tragical state for India.

 

[Varunastra]

you clearly suffer form some severe case of denial,Indian and Filipino the two wealthiest communities both has a history of wealthy folk migrating to the US,two of the most backward nations in Asia ,and Indians comprises of 3/4th of all h1b1 visa holders in US ,they have job securities.
For people like u reality is harsh .



Before colonization,there was no India,it was a bunch of Independent kingdoms and there would have been no India without colonization. The world was taken back by the middle kingdom's grandeure but much of the ancients recorded Indian subcontinent region as backward ,poor,savage with nothing of aesthetic,as it is today .

Don't Insult north koreans like that,they have one of the highest IQ in the world,these are even better human resource ,with more discipline, regimentation,refined and strive than their southern counterparts.Pyongyang makes Delhi seem like just another slum,it's cleaner,safer with lesser crime,and more pristine.They managed great feat to safeguard their sovereignty while much wealthier western proponents of West in Middle east, perished. Even their missile system is ahead of India's.They can cripple India with cyber attack.Based on Indigenous tech,India wouldn't even win a war with NK.Now north koreans are better off than average Indians with free electricity,food,education,transport . Without criminal US and its puppet's sanctions it would have been economic jauggernaut.

And you can go support the hogwash that you prefer,me and my kin were never into all those crap antics.We never went on all those fake news rAmpage or behave like those sheeps.
My state has nothing to do with Indian policies,Indian political system is majoritan based,we never had a voice,we just get rag dolled in policies Made for Bihar or Gujarat or Assam.We take no blame for the tragical state for India.

What blind racism no wealthy people will work for Google, microsoft, they will start their own businesses first thing. Majority of Indians there are salaried cause they had to struggle in life to be where they are, having an h1b1 visa doesn't mean they are wealthy to start with, many will be from service based companies in India where pay is less, there is no wealth transfer, just wealth creation.

Oh entire India was savage is it? It's not like we invented the hindu numeral systems, zero, preparing proper spiced food, medicinal texts, etc, or that we had an empire (read Mauryan empires) that extended till Afghanistan? Or that we influenced entire east and south east Asia that they all became Hindu/Buddhist? Sure savages and backward people are capable of doing that right? Talk about blind hatred! Disgusting!

So entire India is inferior but not Manipur which is superior to common Indians? That's what you are basically saying right?
The way you are blaming Bihar and Assam and parroting the praise for North Korea to a folly of thinking they can beat India in a war? Lol like seriously you believe that? Take any international survey /ranking of military power and Indian always comes in top 6 countries! What's your blind fascination with east Asians to the point of Ludicrous claims? Ofcourse there will be less crime and criminals if everyone is being shot in the head for it by a dictator. Don't know if you are just a supremacist or a separatist but either way it's making me vomit.
You don't speak for the many proud Indian Manipuris who represent us in national /international games and uphold the countrie's pride and honor! .