Typo posted:

also there won't be an actual war, this is one of those "leader A and leader B both need to look tough" so some dudes on the front line are gonna die to satisfy public blood-lust situations

Frog Act posted:

how many thousands of Muslims were murdered in the 2002 pogroms? with the BJP in power across the board a repeat of those kinds of atrocities seems like a distinct possibility

cargo cult posted:

has pakistan ever benefitted from a military confronation with india?

RaffyTaffy posted:

https://twitter.com/MW_Bhatti/status/1100669512779788288

Typo posted:

https://twitter.com/shivashaktam/status/1100790718472380417

cargo cult posted:

modi is such a loving embarrassment too bad congress is a nepotistic succlib institution too incompetent to function as credible opposition

Typo posted:

https://twitter.com/KashmirIntel/status/1101189076579889152

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Typo posted:

my indian friend told me that in northern india all politics is just insider families pretending to be political parties (i.e the INC is owned by the ghandi family) and in southern india all politics are celebrities like movie stars being elected

and obvsly pakistani politics is just a proxy for army rule

Typo posted:

my pakistani friend also told me in the imran khan election the army literally drove trucks up to polling stations to collect ballots, to ensure no irregularities occur

Willie Tomg posted:

to what degree d'you reckon #sayyestowar is an actually grounded thirst for war over kashmir in india as opposed to bougie BJP people holding the party line?

Willie Tomg posted:

when you say hypernationalism doesn't work in south india, do you mean it in a "south india will materially resist this dumbfuck war" sense, or in the sense that american bougie liberals 50/50 broke for/against the iraq war, but then when it started they mostly liked it, but then when it was clear the united states lost it became bad again? because, historically, wars have been a pretty good way to fuse people together in performing the stupidest possible human activity.

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do you percieve any humanist counterpush in the middle class, or is it just BJP chuds all the way down?

Typo posted:

haha

Jose posted:

What did happen with the demonetization in the end?

cargo cult posted:

maybe i'm exaggerating but my dad's dad was a sincere stalinist

Smirking_Serpent posted:

sometimes it seems like all of history just ends up being about a contest of strength. It's easy for posters like me to complain about human rights abuses and democracy and stuff but I kinda get where tankies are coming from. Your enemies will have no mercy so why should you?

So basically, should I just shed all of my ideology and get super into Indian nationalism, or Pakistani nationalism, or I guess Chinese nationalism?I'm open minded if anyone has better ideas.

Typo posted:

In the 1980s and 1990s, Kerala’s migrant workers found employment building highways and skyscrapers in the gulf. These days, their better-educated successors fill jobs overseas as accountants, nurses, lawyers, doctors and mid-level civil servants. More than a third of Kerala’s gross domestic product last year came from remittances.

These migrants are remaking Kerala’s culture. One of the most popular programs on local television is “World of Expats,” a reality show that helps distraught family members find relatives who have gone missing in the gulf region.

They are also remaking the state’s humble landscape. Kerala is a place where big, gated homes — “gulf houses” in the local lingo — sit next to simple ones. Many of the big homes are empty for much of the year, while their owners are abroad working. One government study from 2011 estimated that there were nearly 1 million empty or partially occupied homes. Meanwhile, Isaac worries about a shortage of housing for the poor.

Less than a mile from the spot in the village of Pinarayi where the party held its first clandestine meeting, Prasanth Cherambeth, 40, and his wife, Saniga, 36, had just arrived from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and were celebrating the opening of their six-bedroom home.




Much closer to fulfilling the vision ofMarx-Leninism than the revisionist USSR by bringing prosperity to the keralan working class by educating them and exploiting global job opportunities in such places like Saudi Arabia and Dubai

Anarkii posted:

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1102595226152124416

Typo posted:

also who the gently caress do people think Pakistan being "constantly at war with"

seems like it's india by default lol

svenkatesh posted:

did an AI write this comment? what the gently caress does this poo poo mean

Darth Walrus posted:

Depends how much of that money is getting to Kashmiri Muslims, I'd imagine. In forms other than better-equipped rape squads, anyway.

svenkatesh posted:

Fake news.

Would it be better if India genocided them, like what happened to Kashmiri pundits in the 80s?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus

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Sales of cars and SUVs have slumped to a seven-year-low. Tractors and two-wheelers sales are down. Net profits for 334 companies (excluding banks and financials) are down 18% year-on-year, according to the Financial Express newspaper. The vehicle industry’s rapid expansion under the Modi government had prompted predictions that India would soon overtake Japan and Germany to become the world’s third-biggest motor market. But last month, passenger vehicle sales were 17.7% lower than a year before.

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That’s not all. In March, passenger growth in the world’s fastest growing aviation market expanded at the slowest pace in nearly six years. Demand for bank credit has spluttered. Hindustan Unilever, India’s leading maker of fast moving consumer goods, has reported March quarter revenue growth of just 7%, its weakest in 18 months.

It seems that middle-class ‘consumer boom’ initiated by Modi has burnt itself out. There is a fall in both urban and rural incomes. A crop glut has seen farm incomes drop. Kaushik Basu, former chief economist of the World Bank and professor of economics at Cornell University, believes the slowdown is “much more serious” than he initially believed. Export growth has been close to zero for the last five years. And now the domestic consumer boom is weakening.

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Indeed, India has the lowest productivity levels in Asia. Between 1950 and 1980, labour productivity growth averaged a meagre 1.7%. The two decades to the turn of the millennium saw that average more than double to 3.8%. This was the period when India’s manufacturing and services sectors took off, leaching labour from the lower productivity agricultural sector. Labour productivity growth peaked at 10.2% in 2010 and has been on the decline since. In 2016, it stood at 4.75%. This does not bode well for achieving the growth targets that are needed to raise living standards.

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Already, India is one of the most unequal societies in the world. The richest 1% of Indians now own 52% of the country’s wealth, according to the latest data on global wealth from Credit Suisse Group. The richest 10% of Indians have increased their share of the pie from 68.8% in 2010 to 77% by 2018. In sharp contrast, the bottom half of the Indian people own a mere 4% of the country’s wealth.

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Under Modi, unemployment is at an all-time high. The “Make in India” plan seems to have flopped. And no Boeing, Airbus or Apple has come to invest in factories in India.

Two-thirds of Indian workers are employed in small businesses with less than ten workers, where labour rights are ignored – indeed most are paid on a casual basis and in cash rupees, the so-called ‘informal’ sector that avoids taxes and regulations. India has the largest ‘informal’ sector among the main so-called emerging economies. But small businesses are not very productive.

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In Ranchi, a 24-year-old job seeker told me he hated “all politicians except one.” I didn’t even need to ask who. He said it wasn’t Modi’s fault that he remains jobless even though he has a degree in software engineering. “What can he do?” said the young man, a member of the traditionally discriminated-against Dalit caste. He refused to believe that unemployment hit a 45-year high under Modi’s regime. “That’s not true,” he said. He also said he was sure that fewer jobs were available in the pre-Modi government led by the Indian National Congress party. “Not true,” I said. He said a man has to blame himself if he can’t find a job, not the government. “Not everyone is eligible for a job,” he said. Then he left.