[Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jan. 7 2020: 《The current political regime cannot exist unless it finds a new enemy. It now legitimises itself, not by its positive accomplishments, but by using the enemy as a rallying point. The targeting of enemies — minorities, liberals, secularists, leftists, urban naxals, intellectuals, assorted protestors — is not driven by a calculus of ordinary politics. It is driven by will, ideology and hate, pure and simple... ... This violence is apocalyptic in another sense: Its purpose is to foment more violence, so that targeting enemies becomes self-fulfilling...》
(Ref.: < https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/jnu-delhi-violence-abvp-bjp-jnusu-6203243/ >.) Compare this with the following extract from a monograph dtd. September 28 2003: 《...But before trying to plot the trajectory of Hindutva, it is imperative to keep in mind that the project of ’Hindutva’ is, in its essence, one of building up mass mobilisation, geared to the task of forging a new “Hindu” nation-state - out of the extant one through its appropriation and negation, around a core ’majority’, propelled by whipped up feelings of ’insecurity, paranoia, hatred and aggression’ against an array of ’adversarial and menacing others’, both internal and external, by making extensive and manipulative use of real and imaginary, past and contemporary ’history’ of fissures and conflicts. While religion is put to extensive and intensive instrumentalist use in this task of militant, exclusionist, majoritarian mobilisation, elements of (ultra)nationalism are also put to good use by borrowing and (mis)appropriating the idioms and icons of (widely accepted) mainstream (secular) nationalism, particularly (though not exclusively) of its rightwing variety.》 (Ref.: Indian Nationalism, Hindutva and the Bomb' at < http://www.sacw.net/article572.html>.)] In an outspoken and hard-hitting interview, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, former Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University and one of contemporary India’s most highly regarded political thinkers have said the Modi government is “colloquially speaking fascist”. He says even though the government is committed to winning elections to secure power “in every other way it ticks the checklist of fascist qualities”. After specifying in detail what these are, Mr Mehta concludes that “colloquially speaking this is a fascist government and it is, therefore, not incorrect to use that term”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hiDcd2GiDA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2X6-iLYE7a_Qyi3jib0aQ3kzA2YMD_eZJqron9TP7g1fn1Fyn2TD5WzKI -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZgdgx3MpPH%2BZ1PoE-u_oD6YAoX6Vnzk0gPTd0-eEDh_Gg%40mail.gmail.com.
