India Changes Ruling Party

[travelinman67]

After three decades of principally Gandhi family rule, Hindu Nationalist Narendra Modi steamrolls into power...

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/joh ... ctory.html

...U.S. shit on Modi under Bush....

...since Modi is anti-Muslim...

...any bets on how much love Obama's gonna give?

[Ivytalk]

I'm cautiously optimistic. Our relations with India have been poor in recent years. Modi has good ideas to kick-start India's economy, but I hope he doesn't turn into a Hindu version of Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan who comes into office like a breath of fresh air but turns more toward an oppressive, theocratic autocracy. Time will tell.

[Col Hogan]

The US and International press is calling the election of Modi "the worst of all worlds" since they view him as a "corporatist" not interested in curing the poverty that plagues India...

"Writing in the Guardian on Friday, Indian author and writer Pankaj Mishra argues that with Modi at the helm, India is facing "its most sinister period since independence." Providing context for both Modi's rise within the BJP and the rightwing fanaticism of the party now set to control India, Mishra writes:

Modi is a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a paramilitary Hindu nationalist organisation inspired by the fascist movements of Europe, whose founder's belief that Nazi Germany had manifested "race pride at its highest" by purging the Jews is by no means unexceptional among the votaries of Hindutva, or "Hinduness". In 1948, a former member of the RSS murdered Gandhi for being too soft on Muslims. The outfit, traditionally dominated by upper-caste Hindus, has led many vicious assaults on minorities. A notorious executioner of dozens of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 crowed that he had slashed open with his sword the womb of a heavily pregnant woman and extracted her foetus. Modi himself described the relief camps housing tens of thousands of displaced Muslims as "child-breeding centres".

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/16-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you read the article, the reader comments are pure gold. Progressives are so smug with their sense of superiority that the Comedy Channel can't write stuff this funny..

[houndawg]

Like every where else, throughout history, this will be more of the same.

[CID1990]

does anybody have a crib sheet on what constitutes a fascist this month?

[CAA Flagship]

I got a call from a telemarketer from India. I asked, "What are you wearing, Jugdish from State Farm?" . He said "sandals".

[travelinman67]

The US and International press is calling the election of Modi "the worst of all worlds" since they view him as a "corporatist" not interested in curing the poverty that plagues India...

"Writing in the Guardian on Friday, Indian author and writer Pankaj Mishra argues that with Modi at the helm, India is facing "its most sinister period since independence." Providing context for both Modi's rise within the BJP and the rightwing fanaticism of the party now set to control India, Mishra writes:

Modi is a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a paramilitary Hindu nationalist organisation inspired by the fascist movements of Europe, whose founder's belief that Nazi Germany had manifested "race pride at its highest" by purging the Jews is by no means unexceptional among the votaries of Hindutva, or "Hinduness". In 1948, a former member of the RSS murdered Gandhi for being too soft on Muslims. The outfit, traditionally dominated by upper-caste Hindus, has led many vicious assaults on minorities. A notorious executioner of dozens of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 crowed that he had slashed open with his sword the womb of a heavily pregnant woman and extracted her foetus. Modi himself described the relief camps housing tens of thousands of displaced Muslims as "child-breeding centres".

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/16-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you read the article, the reader comments are pure gold. Progressives are so smug with their sense of superiority that the Comedy Channel can't write stuff this funny..

Interesting read...also interesting comments, trolls aside, that some posters (invictus, for example) saw the bigger picture.
Still early, but I find the election analysis fascinating. Not wanting to become labeled a corporatist, Modi wraps himself as a populist reformer whose focus is to target corruption...

...change "corruption" to "transparency"...AHEM!

Like CID notes...a fascism comes.in all shapes, sizes and colors.