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India's future looks terrifyingly different from the dreams of its founding fathers
by Guest Thu May 04, 2017 11:42 am
This is also reflected in Jha’s account of the Thakur takeover of Adityanath’s Gorakhnath Math. He writes that the dalits and backward castes continue to remain attached to the math, “despite it growing antagonistic and distant from the original concept it was founded on.” Sharp as this observation is, it is of course but one part of the story...
However, one aspect of the draw for thousands of young men who join these organisations is relatively straightforward. From the profiles one can construe how rampant unemployment and underemployment contribute to the growth of these shadow armies. In his profile of the Bajrang Dal, Jha writes, “As it stands today, most Bajrang Dal activists are poorly educated young people who are either unemployed or who regard their jobs as unsatisfactory. Though the leadership belongs to the upper or intermediary castes, a substantial segment of the foot soldiers is drawn from the backward castes and even Dalits.”
In this context it is not difficult to see why young men with abysmal job prospects might take on the tasks set by the leaders of these organisations with fervour, in the hope of a small-time political career, a misplaced sense of purpose and self-worth that otherwise eludes them, or simply impunity to make a little money off crime and extortion....
Starker than the shortfalls of growth and redistribution, is the failure of India’s criminal justice system and rule of law – a failure that underpins Jha’s account of the proliferation of these organisations. He writes about a Bajrang Dal leader in Mangalore who runs a security agency that coerces Muslim businesses into hiring from the agency by threatening them with violence. In Chittorgarh, the police arrest Kashmiri students for allegedly cooking beef in their hostel room at the behest of Bajrang Dal activists, and brandish their powerlessness by claiming they did so to ‘protect’ the students from being beaten.
In other places, Jha notes that despite a thoroughly compiled dossier against the Sanatan Sanstha, little action was taken against it; that the National Investigation Agency tried to pressurise public prosecutor Renu Salian into being lenient with the accused in the Malegaon and Ajmer blasts despite damning evidence against the latter; and that the CB-CID’s long pending request to prosecute Adityanath now lies at the latter’s desk in the state home ministry – a portfolio the chief minister has retained for himself....
To read Shadow Armies is to look a looming threat in the eye and take stock of India’s journey to a crossroad where its future looks terrifyingly different from the dreams of its founding fathers.
https://thewire.in/131876/shadow-armies-hindutva-foot-soldiers/
However, one aspect of the draw for thousands of young men who join these organisations is relatively straightforward. From the profiles one can construe how rampant unemployment and underemployment contribute to the growth of these shadow armies. In his profile of the Bajrang Dal, Jha writes, “As it stands today, most Bajrang Dal activists are poorly educated young people who are either unemployed or who regard their jobs as unsatisfactory. Though the leadership belongs to the upper or intermediary castes, a substantial segment of the foot soldiers is drawn from the backward castes and even Dalits.”
In this context it is not difficult to see why young men with abysmal job prospects might take on the tasks set by the leaders of these organisations with fervour, in the hope of a small-time political career, a misplaced sense of purpose and self-worth that otherwise eludes them, or simply impunity to make a little money off crime and extortion....
Starker than the shortfalls of growth and redistribution, is the failure of India’s criminal justice system and rule of law – a failure that underpins Jha’s account of the proliferation of these organisations. He writes about a Bajrang Dal leader in Mangalore who runs a security agency that coerces Muslim businesses into hiring from the agency by threatening them with violence. In Chittorgarh, the police arrest Kashmiri students for allegedly cooking beef in their hostel room at the behest of Bajrang Dal activists, and brandish their powerlessness by claiming they did so to ‘protect’ the students from being beaten.
In other places, Jha notes that despite a thoroughly compiled dossier against the Sanatan Sanstha, little action was taken against it; that the National Investigation Agency tried to pressurise public prosecutor Renu Salian into being lenient with the accused in the Malegaon and Ajmer blasts despite damning evidence against the latter; and that the CB-CID’s long pending request to prosecute Adityanath now lies at the latter’s desk in the state home ministry – a portfolio the chief minister has retained for himself....
To read Shadow Armies is to look a looming threat in the eye and take stock of India’s journey to a crossroad where its future looks terrifyingly different from the dreams of its founding fathers.
https://thewire.in/131876/shadow-armies-hindutva-foot-soldiers/
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by smArtha Thu May 04, 2017 11:52 am
Illiteracy, Unemployment and Underemployment are problems created by the new regime? The prior regimes thrived a lot on these ills and in fact cheated people by selling useless pseudo concepts than those relevant to their life and living. IMO, it is okay for current ideology to rule for a good 5-6 decades as did the prior one to get back the balance.
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Re: India's future looks terrifyingly different from the dreams of its founding fathers
by Vakavaka Pakapaka Thu May 04, 2017 11:58 am
I wonder who the "founding fathers" he was referring to....... Aurangazeb, Thuglakh.....?smArtha wrote:Illiteracy, Unemployment and Underemployment are problems created by the new regime? The prior regimes thrived a lot on these ills and in fact cheated people by selling useless pseudo concepts than those relevant to their life and living. IMO, it is okay for current ideology to rule for a good 5-6 decades as did the prior one to get back the balance.
India has a long history and the founding fathers go back to ancient times.....
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Re: India's future looks terrifyingly different from the dreams of its founding fathers
by Guest Thu May 04, 2017 12:02 pm
Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:I wonder who the "founding fathers" he was referring to....... Aurangazeb, Thuglakh.....?smArtha wrote:Illiteracy, Unemployment and Underemployment are problems created by the new regime? The prior regimes thrived a lot on these ills and in fact cheated people by selling useless pseudo concepts than those relevant to their life and living. IMO, it is okay for current ideology to rule for a good 5-6 decades as did the prior one to get back the balance.
India has a long history and the founding fathers go back to ancient times.....
by 'founding fathers' is meant people like Nehru. That is, the Indian leadership immediately after the departure of the British in 1947.
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Re: India's future looks terrifyingly different from the dreams of its founding fathers
by Guest Thu May 04, 2017 12:03 pm
smArtha wrote:Illiteracy, Unemployment and Underemployment are problems created by the new regime? The prior regimes thrived a lot on these ills and in fact cheated people by selling useless pseudo concepts than those relevant to their life and living. IMO, it is okay for current ideology to rule for a good 5-6 decades as did the prior one to get back the balance.
we need to return to Nehruvian ideology of secularism, science orientation, modernization, industrialization, etc.
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Re: India's future looks terrifyingly different from the dreams of its founding fathers
by Guest Thu May 04, 2017 12:26 pm
We need to provide facilities for better health care, better education, etc. We need to build more schools, colleges, hospitals, etc. Instead, we are splurging money on building expensive temples. a complete waste of money showing total lack of priorities. See:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/viraat-ramayan-mandir-bihar-angkor-wat-cambodia-bihar-holi-worlds-largest-hindu-temple/1/834039.html
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/viraat-ramayan-mandir-bihar-angkor-wat-cambodia-bihar-holi-worlds-largest-hindu-temple/1/834039.html
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