Inside the psyche of Hindutva’s online supporters
Inside the psyche of Hindutva’s online supporters
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Inside the psyche of Hindutva’s online supporters
The troll is an extension of the Modi cult that very much exists in the real world.
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I’ve had many unfortunate run-ins with the Modi cultists online. Strangely, their fears of national humiliation are self-fulfilling as hindutva has and continues to damage India’s international reputation.
I am curious how widespread opposition to Modi is domestically? He is quite unpopular globally, but he seems to have a firm grasp on the levers of power, but whether that is due to genuine popularity or authoritarian tactics is not clear to me.
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The Modi regime is a team of 2, Modi and the Home Minister Amit Shah. They use mafia-like tactics to intimidate, harass, and punish anyone who dissents. The word that best describe his regime is 'malevolent'. He has completeey subverted the mainstream media aka godimedia and uses it to spread disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda. This absolute control over media makes him seem very powerful.
Modi himself is narcissist, dictatorial, petty, vindictive, and considers himself to be a god (I'm not even kidding about this). In his regime state machinery of Enforcement Directorate aka ED, Income Tax aka IT, Central bureau of investigation aka CBI, Narcotics Control Bureau aka NCB, are used to target businessmen, industrialists, actors, politicians of non-BJP political parties, journalists, activists, and NGOs. The regime also hacks devices and uses tools like Pegasus to monitor & plant false evidence on its detractors.
His rabid & violent Hindutva goons and army of Social meia trolls aka IT-cell are used to terrorise regular citizens. He is very popular with the educated & casteist middle-class. Because his Hindu supremacist goons are backed by state machinery, it's very difficult and dangerous to say anything or act against them. Even I could be imprisoned indefinitely for my post and comments on this site.
But, as Anne Frank said, a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. Our Constitution is that candle.
There has always been opposition to Modi and his fascist ideology, and that opposition is growing.
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost
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They are a plague like any other religious cults.
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Their violence gets ignored and their leader gets welcomed and feted by world leaders.
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Hindutva are violent right-wing Hindu supremacists/ nationalists. They're patriarchial, reject secularism (they call ecular people as 'sickular') and hate liberals ('librul' in Hindutva-speak). Their political party, the BJP, and their ideology have been (mis)governing India since 2014 and Mindia' prime Minister Modi rules their hearts.
I really don't know much about this stuff. Wikipedia seems to disagree with your comment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva
Can you explain how demanding a separation of religion and state is anti-secular? Is the article wrong or are the terms badly translated? Or something else?
Where in that wiki article does it say Hindutva demands separation of religion and state? In fact, Hindutva is a religious-nationalist ideology. that uses violence to grab and hold on to political power.