A *very interesting extract* from the text (not to suggest that the rest, a *product of an invaluable fieldwork*, is not, but just to offer a representative sample and *lay bare the political thrust*):
The number of doctored videos and photographs, or those accompanied by false captions, point to a planned propaganda effort aimed at projecting the Opposition Congress — particularly Sonia and Rahul Gandhi — as both anti-national and anti-Hindu. The singular and malignant obsession with the Gandhi family, starting with Nehru, is not surprising. The most serious allegation made is that the Gandhis are licentious Muslims masquerading as Hindus. Before the advent of social media, this slander was often buried in certain Hindutva websites. Now, a so-called family tree, that starts with Jawaharlal Nehru’s grandfather, has made its way to every phone. This fake family tree turns Nehru’s father, the noted freedom fighter and lawyer Motilal Nehru, into another Genghis Khan, the medieval marauder whose progeny are spread across the world. Motilal’s descendants are shown to be scattered all over India, and appear to include almost every famous Indian Muslim, especially Kashmir’s Abdullah family and even Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Mirror knows of at least two highly-educated women — a professor and a management consultant — who believe this. ... This cult of Modi is both amusing and frightening. One post provides his daily routine: he supposedly adheres to a lifestyle prescribed by Ayurveda. Another describes the endless, arduous toil he goes through, only in the service of the nation. He campaigns in all corners of the country, but unfailingly heads home every night. To what? An empty house, with no one to welcome him, give him hot food or press his feet. https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story/modis-sena/articleshow/68870032.cms?fbclid=IwAR0azDUe25ZSzgzWv2VMq842Tqo0SzVD-3Via_jye8jmI1i0yfjNAa5aSSw 'Modi’s Sena' Mumbai Mirror | Updated: Apr 14, 2019, 06:00 IST ***Inside a WhatsApp group where no fact is sacrosanct and history only material for convenient memes. Target - PMModi2019*** [Bold and underlined in original.] *A Mirror correspondent joins the group where party propaganda, in the form of photos and videos, ranges from riotously funny to downright ridiculous.* [Italics in original.] **It’s hard to know what exactly to expect when you join a ‘PM Modi 2019’ WhatsApp group. There’s going to be bluff and venom of course, but one hadn’t anticipated the scale on which these weapons would be deployed.** [Bold in original.] Snipped -- Peace Is Doable -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
