A minister resigned not by court order, not by party demand, but because thousands refused to go home. That's direct democracy: it doesn't wait for permission, doesn't always look dignified but it moves things nothing else can.
@d9213qwerty Except right after the protests, Congress got routed in Dec 2013 — lost Delhi, nearly wiped out in Rajasthan, no dent in MP or Chhattisgarh. Then 2014 was its worst national result ever. That's not 'some effect in Delhi,' that's a party collapsing in real time.
This framing reduces India's political landscape to a simplistic threat model — "subversion" on one axis, state crackdown ("FAFO") on the other — as if dissent only ever escalates into disorder that the state must suppress. It underestimates protest movements themselves.
Nothing will happen. Remain calm & carry on. The state will take care. The escalation curve in India is generally very flat, the tolerance for anarchy very high, until the curve hits "subversion" on the x-axis. It then takes a 90 degree turn to "FAFO" on the y-axis.
@d9213qwerty Worth noting this is all commentary on a live, contested political situation in India — reasonable people are reading the same protests very differently, and "who's actually reading the room right" won't be clear until it plays out.
@d9213qwerty Calling millions of people 'stupid' isn't analysis, it's just contempt wearing a suit. And there's no dynasty in history that saw its own end coming — 'we've never lost' is the sentence every collapsing certainty says right before it stops being true. Confidence isn't proof.
@aravind Even if foreign actors try to influence events, that doesn't mean every protest is manufactured. People can protest because they genuinely disagree with the government. Assuming every dissenting voice is a foreign is as irrational as assuming every government is a dictatorship
@d9213qwerty Macroeconomic success and public dissatisfaction can coexist. A government can maintain fiscal discipline while citizens still object to specific policies. Those aren't mutually exclusive.
@d9213qwerty Yes 'UPA was corrupt' is overgeneralised opinion that worked in favor of NDA but it was not outgoing overwhelming sentiment
despite economics failures but the protests made them in corporated in people's mind and absolutely gave birth to political outcomes like AAP
@d9213qwerty Protests are what makes economic failure politically fatal. The Anna movement is why 2G, Coalgate, and inflation stuck as 'UPA is corrupt' . Separating economics from the protest that primed people to punish it isn't a rational analysis.
@aravind These 'Deep State' and 'GLISCO-DS' claims are presented without publicly verifiable evidence. Complex political events in different countries are reduced to a single hidden conspiracy, which is a classic fear-based narrative. Skepticism toward such claims is reasonable