“You Guys Are Not Immune”: Modi Government Cracks Down on Independent Media Amid Farmer Protests DNow! interviews P. Sainath, People's Archive of Rural India, February 11, 2021 https://www.democracynow.org/2021/2/11/india_farmworker_protests_media_crackdown_sainath
The Farmers' Protests Are a Turning Point for India's Democracy—and the World Can No Longer Ignore That by Simran Jeet Singh, Time magazine, February 11 https://time.com/5938041/india-farmer-protests-democracy/ For decades, the world has turned a blind eye to India’s abysmal human rights record. This approach draws from a broad perception of India as a strategic ally. . . . But this is not just India’s fight. In a world grappling with rising authoritarianism, propaganda, human rights abuses, and anti-democratic practices, quashing right-wing nationalism is in everyone’s best interest. Letting it go unchecked, especially in the world’s largest democracy, puts us all at risk. It seems like India as our strategic ally is changing before our eyes. We’re at risk of losing our ally because an authoritarian nation cannot be an ally in the same way as an open democratic society. With more than 1.3 billion people in India, we’re talking about a country that is muzzling and restricting basic freedoms for a full one-sixth of the global population. # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6313): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6313 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80580873/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
