May 2014
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Politics
The delusions of the king-makers
Introduces a reproduced extract arguing that the 2014 result traced to judgement calls by Rajiv Gandhi, including the Shah Bano law. The poster adds that a BJP sweep has also…
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Economy
Tsu-Namo “massive, massive positive” for India
A Bloomberg report quoting former Goldman Sachs Asset Management chairman Jim O’Neill, who calls Modi’s win a ‘massive, massive positive’ for India. The poster respectfully disagrees and reads it as…
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Politics
The People vs. the Coalition against Genocide
The poster argues that democracy, not an outside power, has defeated liberals over Modi, since there is no vote bank for liberal ideologies. It also claims India now mirrors Pakistan…
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A secular path to increase minority representation
After an election returning no Muslim MPs from Uttar Pradesh and only 20 nationwide, the poster argues first-past-the-post distorts representation, citing large vote shares that won no seats, and favours…
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Politics
“Minarets are our bayonets”
Asks whether India is a break-out nation like Turkey and whether Modi resembles Erdoğan, then reproduces a polemic by Ruchir Sharma. The poster reads its fears as secularists’ alarm that…
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Twitter for your thoughts
The poster argues that the Indian and Israeli far right differ from Europe’s: they want to be Westerners with a thin Hindu or Hebrew overlay, while local cultures fade. It…
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Politics
For India has now become the Muslim Pakistan
The poster argues that Modi’s rise completes India’s transformation into a strident ‘Hindu Pakistan’, and that far-right leaders are tolerated so long as they are not Muslim or Christian. It…
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Rahul Gandhi; a great statesman?
A link to a site on why Congress lost, with a one-line comment that Rahul Gandhi needs to Indianise more and learn humility in his years out of power.
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Society
North Indians (agressive fighters) vs. South
Posted as exam results were declared, this note on student suicides in the southern states reproduces an interview with the helpline SNEHA. It urges readers to support those at risk…
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The Gandhian guns of Ayemenem
Addressing Arundhati Roy, the poster argues Kerala is a literate silver lining but has sharper religious fault lines: a Muslim belt around Malappuram, Gulf ties and Wahhabi influence, and powerful…
