Posting it a tad late but I wanted the readers to think objectively rather than emotionally.
India is on a threshold: nope, not a technological threshold nor any ideological threshold. For the first time in its history (if we are to believe the mainstream media), a duly elected government has grown a pair and is going to "relocate" people who have no right to be in the country, in the first place! Bangladeshis, Rohingyas and others who walked around with aplomb, are now hiding from the government agencies. The same government agencies that, till 4 years ago, gave them new identities and let them loot the Indian exchequer. Today, hopefully the Indian people have realized the extent to which a political party or parties will go to protect their vote banks
Look, it's not easy to get them out of the country, what with the Sibals and the other lawyers standing in the way. That being said, these non-Indian "citizens" will have a chance to either repatriate or to face the wrath of unfriendly jails and environments that were erstwhile unknown to them. Add to that, a language barrier and they're in all kinds of sh*t! If I were a betting man, I'd lay my bet on the government!
Political opponents have raised a storm in this regard, as they should. After all, if the truth came out, none of these parties would have a leg to stand on. People like Didi have offered refuge in their states, forgetting that the state is still a part of the sovereign republic of India. Then, we have youngsters(you can't make this up) who actually believe that we need to reunify Bangladesh with India! Seriously, are you kidding me! The argument is they never really wanted partition!! You coulda fooled me!! When Mujibur Rehman fought for liberation from Pakistan, he didn't mean it when he said he wanted a separate country! He just wanted to be a part of India! To be young and naive!
Any thoughts on reunification of a country will be dispelled when one realizes the existing government of BD doesn’t want to be a part of Akhand Bharat. The cost to an exchequer to support the new inhabitants and the infrastructure required to maintain the new state is also prohibitively expensive.
What is it that makes NRC a sensitive subject? That the government wants a country where a census shows the actual legal inhabitants or that the government, that was elected by the people, is changing the equation?
Anybody can point out faults in a system or society. The leader accepts the challenge of correcting these faults! Aamir Khan showed himself to be just a person with a grudge! The intolerance that he spoke off, existed way before Modi came to form this government. It was just that one community didn’t feel the intolerance, and how could they? It was a government that was anti-Hindu which suited Aamir (yes I know his former wife was a Hindu). From there to go to a government that said that all communities will be treated equally (bad or good is debatable) does change the equation and makes it look like intolerance! What some intellectuals missed is that equanimity in society doesn’t immediately translate to intolerance! How could India be intolerant? We have, for ages, given people a place to stay and pray to the god of their choice!
India is on a threshold: nope, not a technological threshold nor any ideological threshold. For the first time in its history (if we are to believe the mainstream media), a duly elected government has grown a pair and is going to "relocate" people who have no right to be in the country, in the first place! Bangladeshis, Rohingyas and others who walked around with aplomb, are now hiding from the government agencies. The same government agencies that, till 4 years ago, gave them new identities and let them loot the Indian exchequer. Today, hopefully the Indian people have realized the extent to which a political party or parties will go to protect their vote banks
Look, it's not easy to get them out of the country, what with the Sibals and the other lawyers standing in the way. That being said, these non-Indian "citizens" will have a chance to either repatriate or to face the wrath of unfriendly jails and environments that were erstwhile unknown to them. Add to that, a language barrier and they're in all kinds of sh*t! If I were a betting man, I'd lay my bet on the government!
Political opponents have raised a storm in this regard, as they should. After all, if the truth came out, none of these parties would have a leg to stand on. People like Didi have offered refuge in their states, forgetting that the state is still a part of the sovereign republic of India. Then, we have youngsters(you can't make this up) who actually believe that we need to reunify Bangladesh with India! Seriously, are you kidding me! The argument is they never really wanted partition!! You coulda fooled me!! When Mujibur Rehman fought for liberation from Pakistan, he didn't mean it when he said he wanted a separate country! He just wanted to be a part of India! To be young and naive!
Any thoughts on reunification of a country will be dispelled when one realizes the existing government of BD doesn’t want to be a part of Akhand Bharat. The cost to an exchequer to support the new inhabitants and the infrastructure required to maintain the new state is also prohibitively expensive.
What is it that makes NRC a sensitive subject? That the government wants a country where a census shows the actual legal inhabitants or that the government, that was elected by the people, is changing the equation?
Anybody can point out faults in a system or society. The leader accepts the challenge of correcting these faults! Aamir Khan showed himself to be just a person with a grudge! The intolerance that he spoke off, existed way before Modi came to form this government. It was just that one community didn’t feel the intolerance, and how could they? It was a government that was anti-Hindu which suited Aamir (yes I know his former wife was a Hindu). From there to go to a government that said that all communities will be treated equally (bad or good is debatable) does change the equation and makes it look like intolerance! What some intellectuals missed is that equanimity in society doesn’t immediately translate to intolerance! How could India be intolerant? We have, for ages, given people a place to stay and pray to the god of their choice!
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