Read the newspapers, listen to the TV “debates” and see the
WhatsApp-trained ignorant armies clash day and night.
Of course,
politicians did not create the powerful Hindu caste system. They merely exploit
this fault-line, exacerbating the caste animosities to build vote banks.
MPs call on Richard Cook to “emerge from the shadows” after we uncover his trail of illegal waste, unpaid bills and court documents stretching from India to California.
In a politically-surcharged atmosphere, no one should doubt
that the appearance of Lord Ram’s idol in the mosque on the night of December
22, 1949 was an act of God.
It is not enough to have token female
representation in negotiations. Or room for compromise on the interests and rights
of Afghan women citizens in future Afghan society.
How should we channel concern over the growing number of anti-trafficking scandals?
It was not always like that. Those tracking the progress of
democracy in India should interview political activists above 90 years of age.
Just occasionally, the UK public gets reminded that AIDS isn’t over and done with. Not at home, and certainly not round the rest of the world.
In the pattern of authoritarianism taking
over Indian politics since 2014, social movements, activists, and dissidents
find themselves at the receiving end of increasingly brazen forms of repression.
As a Sri Lankan citizen living in the UK, the author finds
himself in the eye of the two political storms tearing both these countries
apart. He has four thoughts.
The burgeoning movement has spilled forth beyond the confines of the film and entertainment industry. But how far will it go?
