Comments by "M Shastri" (@libshastra) on "The stakes of India’s election as Modi seeks third term" video.

  1. Why should India take Muslims in Pakistan who openly call for its conquest back into it’s borders? It is a huge existential risk. Secondly, why would India want to re-litigate the partition? The Muslim who live in these countries did not want to live with Non Muslims anyway. The non-Muslims in the same country are citizens we left behind due to the chaos of the partition. It’s not India’s responsibility to care for Muslims in those countries. They made their choice, the exclusion respects that.
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  2. Modi inherited a declining economy in his first term. In 2013, India was amongst the “Fragile five”. He restructured it, it was painful but he pulled it off.
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  3. India under Modi is decolonization itself from its Mughul past and reforming colonized structures that led to the partition. That’s what’s happening in India socially.
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  4. The anglophile elite and their civil society is getting punished for their arrogance. There’s no doubt about that. The screaming we see about declining civil liberties is coming from them. Honestly, it’s very entertaining - it’s like watching laurentian elite squirming over losing relevance with Canadians. India’s civil society is getting replaced by a more native, grassroots, local language speaking one. They are helping the govt drive its agenda. So ya, if you want to learn more about India, stop listening to “experts” in Canada and maybe learn some Hindi.
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