2014 Indian general election

India: controlled by (kosher) remote?

Admitting poor political instincts, the poster recalls expecting a BJP win in 2009, argues Congress won partly because voters wanted Pakistan pacified and feared the ISI, and says the Modi…

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RSS Led by Modi in Charge of India, Part I: Let It Sink In

First in a series on the Modi government, the post calls the BJP’s single-party majority the worst nightmare of India’s ‘pseudo-secularists’, arguing the party no longer needs regional allies and…

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“Look at me, I’m here to end all your woes”

Following Rahul Pandita, the poster reads Rahul Gandhi’s smile after the defeat as a sign he is untroubled that the 128-year-old Congress has been destroyed, comparing the result to a…

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Aatish Taseer has the final word (NaMo vs. RaGa)

Praises Aatish Taseer’s article on why elites like Rahul Gandhi lost and may never rule India, with quoted passages on Modi’s mocking of poverty as a state of mind and…

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Mr Modi, please tear down this wall

A reproduced open letter from a Gandhi family member urging Narendra Modi to respect the Constitution’s guarantees to minorities and to rethink the idea of the nation. The poster approves…

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The patron saint of the neo-Hindus

Responding to Pankaj Mishra’s ‘neo-Hindus’, the poster argues that Shudras and Dalits voting BJP is not simply false consciousness: the upper castes, it says, have lost control of the RSS…

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“Prime minister of people of all faiths”

Reading British advice that Modi should drop religious talk for economics, the poster is cautiously hopeful but doubtful. It argues divide and rule worked because Indians were already divided, and…

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Arun vs. Arundhati

Introduces and reproduces a column by Thalekkara Arun, described as a pragmatic leftist, who argues that Congress’s minority politics alienated both minorities and the majority, and that liberals should stay…

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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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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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