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Offline TomSea

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Narendra Modi is pulling India back to the 1970s
« on: January 25, 2017, 04:20:08 am »
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Narendra Modi is pulling India back to the 1970s

“Our problem is that there is too much democracy in India — that’s why difficult decisions never get taken,” declared Sunil Alagh, marketing consultant and supporter of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The bon vivant was responding to the uproar over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s shock decision to invalidate 86 percent of India’s currency. Alagh’s lament betrayed a longing oft expressed by the country’s affluent and well heeled — a craving for the precision and order of authoritarian leadership. “You know, we need someone like Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore,” can be heard in many swish Delhi drawing rooms, whose attendants are in any case inoculated by wealth against the vagaries of India’s economy.

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Re: Narendra Modi is pulling India back to the 1970s
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2017, 04:47:36 am »
What Gomer Pyle said.
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Re: Narendra Modi is pulling India back to the 1970s
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2017, 05:35:11 am »
BTW, India's 70's wasn't as fun as ours.
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Re: Narendra Modi is pulling India back to the 1970s
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2017, 06:33:41 am »
Quote from: Unlimited on January 25, 2017, 06:27:26 am
Gas lines and hostage crisis.  Good times.  :/
Worse.

Thing economic genocide against the lowest castes and poor - and you have what is occurring in India.

Modi seeks to return India to a pure Hindu state - where the Brahmins rule with impunity without any recourse from the lower castes.
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