"If a principled yet powerful leader does emerge, he can only
come from yesterday’s disempowered classes."
In a country with low press freedom and media literacy, fake news could be a recipe for disaster.
The major transformative
potential of permaculture in India lies in its ability to make small-scale
farmers self-sufficient. Hence, it offers viable solutions to the very deep
crisis farmers are facing.
So far a
persistent theme of the Afghan conflict is the glaring gap between words and
actions, with both sides talking peace while intent on waging war.
Unlike
in India, British democracy, distorted by Mammon, is spared by God.
Once Britain moved beyond religious nationalism, religion itself
became a spent force, though not one prevented from speaking truth to power.
Contrast India.
The state has been openly hostile towards the Pashtun Tahafuz movement – the right to protest must be protected.
In India, student protests have escalated under the current
far-right, Hindu-supremacist government and been characterised by open
ideological warfare.
The vitriolic anger directed at the PoA might mean that
Indian society is not entirely ready to face the depth of its own ingrained
prejudice.
The recent Windrush migration scandal poignantly illustrated
the tensions between people’s sense of belonging to a country, societal
recognition of that belonging, and legal status and access to social rights.
Ravish
Kumar has recorded the Republic of Fear for posterity. These are the heroes of
World Press Freedom Day.
