Even if the BBC had dredged from its archives old news on the Hindu nationalist racist fascist Narendra Modi and his illiberal antics that have caused injurious mayhem among ethnic and religious minorities in India, as well as the slum dwellers on behalf of his rentier capitalist crony class, so bloody what? When Modi gets away with murder, as it were, documentaries like this, whether on the cusp of the G20 meeting or otherwise, is a good reminder of how much of a Hindu authoritarian Modi has become and why he needs to be put in his cage before he destroys the so-called Indian social fabric whose praises Hindus have been chorusing for Modi's benefit -- a social fabric that has hardly existed since 1947 and which is being ripped apart by religious violence, backed by the Modi-Hindu nationalist fascist state.
He's gone after India's Muslims, he's gone after the Sikhs, he's gone after Indian farmers, and he'd left the poor for dead. The only ones who have benefitted from Modi's Janus-faced state are his business cronies. He's made Indian courts pliant to his rule, and made India's elephantine, inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy and security forces his tool of oppression and repression. Which might help explain why so many Indians have migrated to the West (and Australia), why more have been leaving and many more will follow. So much for how great India is.
What is the point of the Hindu religion if Modi, its high priest, promotes religious and racial violence, turning Hindu religious texts into a form of hate-filled satanic verses? Rishi Sunak will say what he said because he is basically an invertebrate; he cannot and will not stand up against vile brutes like Modi who unleashes bloody viciousness against ethnic minorities. yet what the BBC documentaries have shown, and reminded, is the sort of politics of nasty hate against India's ethnic minorities, the ancient hatred for Muslims (and the Dalits) by Hindus, over which even the next-to-useless Congress Party has fallen silent.
If nothing else, the documentaries are a timely reminder that fascists like Modi should not be allowed the room to peddle their racist hatred for the weaker minorities any more than he should be allowed to run over weaker, maginalized and voiceless Hindus and others.
Even if the BBC had dredged from its archives old news on the Hindu nationalist racist fascist Narendra Modi and his illiberal antics that have caused injurious mayhem among ethnic and religious minorities in India, as well as the slum dwellers on behalf of his rentier capitalist crony class, so bloody what? When Modi gets away with murder, as it were, documentaries like this, whether on the cusp of the G20 meeting or otherwise, is a good reminder of how much of a Hindu authoritarian Modi has become and why he needs to be put in his cage before he destroys the so-called Indian social fabric whose praises Hindus have been chorusing for Modi's benefit -- a social fabric that has hardly existed since 1947 and which is being ripped apart by religious violence, backed by the Modi-Hindu nationalist fascist state.
He's gone after India's Muslims, he's gone after the Sikhs, he's gone after Indian farmers, and he'd left the poor for dead. The only ones who have benefitted from Modi's Janus-faced state are his business cronies. He's made Indian courts pliant to his rule, and made India's elephantine, inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy and security forces his tool of oppression and repression. Which might help explain why so many Indians have migrated to the West (and Australia), why more have been leaving and many more will follow. So much for how great India is.
What is the point of the Hindu religion if Modi, its high priest, promotes religious and racial violence, turning Hindu religious texts into a form of hate-filled satanic verses? Rishi Sunak will say what he said because he is basically an invertebrate; he cannot and will not stand up against vile brutes like Modi who unleashes bloody viciousness against ethnic minorities. yet what the BBC documentaries have shown, and reminded, is the sort of politics of nasty hate against India's ethnic minorities, the ancient hatred for Muslims (and the Dalits) by Hindus, over which even the next-to-useless Congress Party has fallen silent.
If nothing else, the documentaries are a timely reminder that fascists like Modi should not be allowed the room to peddle their racist hatred for the weaker minorities any more than he should be allowed to run over weaker, maginalized and voiceless Hindus and others.