It's unbelievably naive to act as if this hasn't always been the case, what's giving you, and your ideological allies on the left, heartburn, is that the roles in this setup remained the same, but the communities taking on those specific roles were flipped. And this is just the beginning.
Don't worry, the shift is well underway, and no matter what you or GND think or say on these threads, the BJP is here to stay for a long, long time.
Again, pure nonsense, what's bothering you is that the roles changed. I find it funny because at one point on the last blog you even used to acknowledge the fact that Muslims were allowed to run rampant and engage in dadagiri, I remember reading and agreeing with those posts; I have no clue what suddenly happened that now you get up and claim that India never had a terribly partisan Government before this one. If anything, antisocial elements have far less freedom under this Government than previous UPA + Governments.
Interesting attempt to rationalize the anti-Sikh riots by the way, it's a terrible justification. As for points about continued violence between Hindus and Muslims, we've been over it a million times, because there is a healthy chunk of subcontinental Muslims who do not acknowledge and accept what they are, hence Islam comes first for them, they do not consider themselves Indians nor are they loyal to it, and hence they are antisocial elements and fifth columnists who need to be dealt with.
You're going to have to be more specific about your points on Christians and Parsis.
As I said already, that point is plain nonsense, and let me reiterate, it is little more than your typical fear mongering/imagination gone wild, except this time you even picked out a role for me to play in your bizarre doomsday scenario. What you are pushing, is little more than Congress/leftist & in this case Dalit/Backward Party (SP, BSP, RJD) and Dravidian Party Propaganda.
Random points. I find split answering a post tedious.
Why should a blatantly partisan party not bother a non Hindu?
If a partisan Muslim party were in power, would a non Muslim not be bothered?
There is no place for a religious partisan party in a diverse secular democracy.
A democracy is not majoritarianism. This is something the sangh brigade cannot wrap their head around.
I've told you the facts. Minority Indians are being singled out, targeted and killed. Journalists are being killed. Rationalists are being killed. People who speak up and their views do not match the current dispensation's, they are being killed.
No doubt you will attempt to rationalize each of these with whataboutery, gish goulashing, and equivocalness. The BUT paradigm.
But the fact is that we are seeing these killings. And the eyes and ears of the electorate are not closed.
A government is supposed to clamp down on violence between communities. Not either look away or provide overt and covert support.
The BJP or any other party, can be one thing or the other. Not both depending on the way the wind is moving.
The BJP got elected as a party promising development, and end to corruption, and progress for all.
It delivered nothing. And in fact has proven to be the mirror opposite.
My views on forums are not influenced by social media since I am a dinosaur.
What you read from my pen, flows directly from my head, which is fed by my eyes and ears, living and open here in India, among the people, observing and interacting, and an intelligence which I have never been shy to acknowledge as way above average. Both perceived, validated over an academic and professional lifetime, and measured objectively, scientifically.
I may be a dinosaur. But I'm a very sharp observer of human beings and social life. I do not spread myself across twitter feeds. But go deep dive behind people and their defences and facades.
I do not live my life on social media. I am not an internet Hindu or an internet Parsi. I am a physician, with my fingers on the pulse of Indian society.
Cheers, Doc
