for all the indian bots plz do read the following:
India is in the middle of a meltdown. Strange things are happening in that vast land. Hindu majoritarianism is stampeding over minorities with deliberate abandon and Indians are getting a taste of what Kashmiris have been suffering under New Delhi’s occupation. The mainstreaming of bigotry and hate, the normalisation of lynch mobs and state persecution, and the degeneration of media into a venom-spewing state appendage is fast reducing Brand India to a totalitarian state.
A latest report in The New York Times quotes Gyan Prakash, a professor of history at Princeton University, as saying: “[T]he BJP onslaught is also very different [from Indira Gandhi’s emergency in the 1970s] and even more damaging to whatever remains of democracy in India.” The report says, “He cited what he called a creeping dismantling of the pillars of democracy under Mr Modi, from the coercion and control of the mainstream media to influencing the courts.” Mr Prakash is quoted: “Critics often call it an ‘undeclared emergency’ … it is much worse and more damaging in the long term, because the arrests and the denial of bail to detainees is an assault on whatever remains of the institutions of the rule of law.”