It is also clear that the demonisation, humiliation and victimisation of Muslims, and now of Christians, is being encouraged by the present regime and tolerated by the authorities.
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India cuts a sorry figure in the run-up to the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, writes Anil Singh
Among those booked in recent years under the draconian UAPA and left to rot in jail include civil rights activists, lawyers and academicians in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, students arrested in the anti-CAA protests, human rights defenders, RTI activists and even an 83-year-old Jesuit priest, Stan Swamy.
India has been famously described as a land where many centuries co-exist but now, it is also one where many versions of the truth co-exist; somewhat like the six blind men discovering an elephant.
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India must realise that a democracy cannot be reduced to only demanding praise from the rest of the world
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India must realise that a democracy cannot be reduced to only demanding praise from the rest of the world
The ongoing protests by farmers against the three hastily promulgated agriculture laws have drawn international attention, with the denial of democratic rights to them by the government’s construction of military-grade barriers and shutting down of the Internet at protest sites getting strong statements of support from numerous international celebrities. The official response of the Ministry of External Affairs was disproportionate to the provocation, but it was not merely the reaction of a thin-skinned government. The argument put forth by the government pushed a more fundamental premise: it warned the concerned global voices that these matters democracy and hu