Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).
We should declare that only BJP party members are citizens with full rights, everyone else is a potential 'threat to sovereignty/word of your choice' and start from there. It would be less tedious than slandering every dissenting voice and every suffering citizen as a terrorist.
Editors of most major newspapers lied in front page headlines about the constitutional amendment bill aimed at delimitation. Now the prime minister of the country is lying about the bill on live television to 1.4 billion people. Pathetic state of affairs
Most Indians are inherently corrupt and will sell the system and the land given a chance. Ask an officer like this they ll say yeh sab upar tak jaata hai.
All the desh bhakti speech is for social media display.
We all can hope and pray the next bridge doesnt fall on our heads or we dont die of contaminated water and adulterated milk.
In India today, sycophancy seems the price of survival. But a mind that isn’t free can’t create progress - and without freedom of thought, the nation stalls.
The ECI is not sounding like a constitutional body but an angry and rattled political party that does not want to share footage. Waiting for the lawyers to weigh in with their response to what has been stated by chief election
Commissioner. And the grounds for not sharing footage is protecting privacy of women. Hello, then get rid of facial recognition all over country. If a woman is going to polling booth she would like to know her vote counts and not that ECI has decided to protect her modesty as opposed to ensure her rights.