Very likely they are planning to leave. There’s a small chance that they have some family issues or burnout though. You will want to have a conversation about the latter. When people zone out, it usually is the former though, in my experience.
1. No press freedom: what explains the presence and popularity of the wire, scroll, news minute, the quint, etc? Traditional print media that’s critical of the current party in power includes The Hindu, Telegraph etc. That there’s no press freedom is false.
2. Ethno-nationalist state: what ethnicity are we talking about here? BJP loses often in elections locally, and majority of their opponents are Hindus.
What India has always been is illiberal. You are weakening your point by exaggerating the current conditions.
Moreover this prosed ban is because we have an overzealous bureaucracy that doesn’t understand technology and does not care to. It’s got nothing to do with what India has become.
As a data point, the previous government that grandparent speaks of also has been involved in actual suspension of democracy, abolition of press rights, and jailing of opposition leaders[1].
Indian administrations have always have had an authoritarian bent regardless of who has been in power.
Care to tell me what exactly is "misinformation" when every point has been cited from articles by reputable local/international media sources?
If your only argument is about a so called "western bias", forgive me for laughing. I'm under no obligation to kowtow to the delusions of an authoritarian country and it's supporters.
Looks like he was doing his patriotic duty.”Thiel's reporting to the FBI was largely limited to foreign contacts and attempts by foreign governments to penetrate Silicon Valley.”
Not uncommon in rest of the world. Once upon a time, it was American journalists who enthusiastically did this:
"Thiel publicly called on the FBI to investigate Google's ties to the Chinese government" kinda ignores the fact that Google competes with several of his company, and their 'ties' are allegations that come from... Thiel.
Blow the whistle on what? Nothing in that documentary is new, most Indians know it. It has been reported and widely covered by Indian press before. It is just new to you (or the west).
You are forgetting one thing - most Indians knew it and believed it back in 2001 but now there's a whole generation who has been brainwashed to believe that the whole western world's media is against India because they don't want to see India be a power. They genuinely believe in this. These are the people who were probably 5 year olds then and are now in their late 20s or early 30s.
Obviously they don't think why they want to be a "superpower" when we still don't have clean water and our air is getting worse (literally unliveable by global standards)
Most Indians still know, it has been covered continuously these past two decades. Or maybe I am in the wrong information bubble. BJP’s political opponents won’t allow anyone to forget it.
Most people don't know all the details. They see news that court did not find any evidence and that's all they hear. Everyone wants to stay in a bubble of their liking.
Amit Shah is not a Jain. Agree otherwise. Caste is a very lazy lens to apply to the situation. Indian political parties are about power, every one of them has been illiberal. There’s BJP, but also DMK and Trinamool, who are just as intolerant of dissent at state level.
These are all parties that are opposed to the BJP. I wish there were parties that are committed to liberalism, rule of law and institution building in India. Not very optimistic at the moment.
