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Re:India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenshi...
on Saturday December 21, 2019 @04:37AM (#21850535)
https://www.news18.com/news/business/indias-gdp-growth-hits-...
This was a few months ago. India's annual growth rate is still higher than Pakistan's. https://www.reuters.com/article/india-economy-gdp/update-2-i...
All minorities: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/world/asia/india-muslims-...
Re:India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenshi...
on Friday December 20, 2019 @09:06AM (#21844170)
This planet money episode explains it pretty well.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/764433918/episode-770-when-in...
NBER report: https://scholar.harvard.edu/gopinath/publications/cash-and-e...
Re:India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenshi...
on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:37AM (#21843990)
They've broadly been peaceful in nature.
It's immoral to paint the entire struggle as being violent.
People are just trying to uphold India's founding principles.
Police brutality has reached a new low as well.
Re:India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenshi...
on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:02AM (#21843817)
Current govt caused the recession.
The damage demonetisation did (especially to the poor) is painfully obvious. No significant upside. The reduction in economic activity was so pronounced that satellite images could pick up on it.
Growth rate tanked. It's now lower than that of Pakistan which is ironic considering how much the current regime likes to use them as a distraction.
They're also responsible for the longest and the most number of internet shutdowns in the history of any democracy (It's still going on). Horrible civil rights record.
Minorities are definitely not better off. Statements like that are just propaganda.
Re:India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenshi...
on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:34AM (#21843343)
The level insidiousness needed to use asylum as a way to undermine India's secularism is something only the BJP(right-wing hindu nationalist) can have.
People fleeing persecution can obviously be sheltered in a nonsectarian manner.