The Farmers Protests Are a Turning Point for India s Democracy and the World Can No Longer Ignore That Time 2/12/2021 Simran Jeet Singh © Anindito Mukherjee Getty Images Farmers shout slogans as they participate in a protest at the Delhi Singhu border in Delhi, India on Dec. 18, 2020.
For decades, the world has turned a blind eye to India’s abysmal human rights record. This approach draws from a broad perception of India as a strategic ally.
For one, the United States, like much of the global community, sees India as an important counterweight to China. They are the two most populous nations and the fastest growing trillion-dollar economies in the world. Global powers tend to prefer India because of its standing as the world’s largest democracy. At the same time, India’s adversarial relationship with neighboring Pakistan, as well as its increasingly anti-Muslim policies, position it as a bulwark against “Islamic terrorism.”
پاکستانی سکھوں کا بھارتی کسانوں کی حمایت میں ریلی کا اعلان
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واہگہ بارڈر تک ٹریکٹر ریلی نکالنے کا اعلان پاکستانی سکھ برادری بھی بھارتی کسانوں سے اظہاریکجہتی کیلئے میدان میں آگئی
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This has to end peacefully : California s Punjabi farmers rally behind India protests Summer Sewell
Sukhcharan Singh grows walnuts in Yuba City, California, about 40 miles north of Sacramento. Like many Sikh farmers in this small Central Valley city, Singh’s thoughts are occupied by the ongoing protests in India.
“I lose sleep over this. When I was there, it was a poor country, yes, but it was a good country,” said Singh, 68, flipping through notes he has taken on the latest news out of India. “Last night I finally slept at 11.30.”
Since the end of November, hundreds of thousands of farmers, mostly from the agricultural states of Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting on the outskirts of Delhi, making the nation’s capital inaccessible for miles. They are demanding that the Hindu nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi, repeal three laws passed hurriedly by parliament – “shoved down the throats of the people,” as Singh puts it – in Septemb