Documenting 21st Century - India and the World

This is a tentative Profile of some major political parties in India right now.  BJP - The main Fascist party that's ruling India and a Pathocracy lead by worst sociopathic fanatic elements of Indian politics. It's rise to power started around three decades ago based on religious populism (Hindu Nationalism). Current stronghold of party is in Northern states & so called cow belt states which are the culturally and socioeconomically most backward regions of India. To consolidate power, party also makes alliance with secular, liberal and other traditional reactionary parties of India. The party employs the most notorious terrorist gangs (religious militant organizations) and gangsters for political purposes. The party is also embedded ideologically in Govt institutions including the military, courts, Police etc. Party has long track record of communal religious violence, riots, mass murders, assassinations etc. BJP also has characteristic of plebeian revolution subsidized by

With India going more and more into dysfunction, paralysis and failure, various opinions have emerged on the current state of India. Some blame India's failure on drifting away from principles of Gandhian/Nehruvian vision. Some blame it on endemic institutional corruption that has slowly hollowed out the country. Others blame it on religious extremism, casteism and nepotism. Before getting into problems in India's political system, i look at conditions that shaped India's political system at its inception. Founding fathers of Independent India - Nehru, Gandhi etc grew up in age of colonialization which significantly shaped their thinking. Gandhi, a disciple of non-violence, believed that dialogue & reason alone are sufficient to solve world problems. With reasoning and rationality, people can be convinced to become harmonious. He envisioned India as rural village society where everyone will live in peace without exploitation of colonial forces and under the protection o

                                                                                    Barricades at Delhi border to stop Farmer's march Farmer movements represent the failures of Modi regime in multiple ways. First is the obvious economic failures. India is a jobless economy where very few avenues of decent employment exists. Most of the labor force still relies on agrarian rural sector for livelihood. Since agrarian sector has very low productivity and wages, labor employed in this sector has dismal income and living standards. On top of that, the climate change disruptions (change in weather patterns, increasing frequency of erratic monsoons), lack of infrastructure (supply chain disruptions due to floods, lack of reliable irrigation systems etc) and backward farm practices (lack of modern technology) amplify the already dismal prospects of agriculture sector. Farm sector is the furnace that destroys India's workforce.  The problem is, India has not developed/modernized other a

Left - Kaaba in Saudi Arabia. Right - Idol of Lord Ram in India Modern world looks upon Islam, the Kaaba shrine as intellectual backwardness of middle east states. Primitive people worshiping a rock and subscribing to obsolete religious dogmas is seen as sign of intellectual shallowness of these states. Now, India is also joining the list with their own version of intellectual and cultural decadence. Ram Temple is India's version of Kaaba. Built on foundation of pogroms, mass violence, social backwardness and political Fascism, it's a project of India's vanity of all vanities. A false prestige and a kind of opium given to reactionary society to satiate their psychological needs. The current political class cannot solve the challenges of poverty, unemployment, standards of living, healthcare & education system, economic and social backwardness. The political class cannot solve the real challenges like Air pollution that's eating away 11.9 years of every citizen'

In Indian PM's recent visit to US, India signed a MoU (memorandum of understanding) with Micron for building a chip assembly factory in Indian state of Gujarat. The factory will create 5,000 direct and 15,000 indirect jobs in the state. The cost of factory is pegged at $2.75 Billion out of which Indian Govt will bear 70% of the net cost. This is due to India's subsidy program to nurture semiconductor industry in India as India has lagged far behind the global competitors like US, China, Taiwan, South Korea & Japan. In fact India is not even in the race as of now & previous efforts to nurture semiconductor industry have failed. The project is promoted as the first of its kind to develop first "make in India chips". The factory however, will not really manufacture the chips but only assemble & test the chips as the key part of chip manufacturing process (front end) will not be happening in India.  One of the criticism of the project is that Indian Govt is

India's PM Modi was given a red carpet by US Govt. He was paraded in Capital Hill, given WH dinner and singing opera tour - a grotesque promotion of Trumpian dictator. Irony is that US Capital Hill just recently desecrated by Trump's MAGA riots gave its floor to another Trumpian dictator who is possibly as worse as Trump in his own country. But that's all part of US Realpolitik in multipolar world to counter China & Russia (BTW, Putin is hanging by a thread in Moscow). US fully knows Modi's background but choose to use India against another malignant dictator Xi that is immediate neighbor to India. I won't go into discussion of US foreign policy right now. But I find that some of the western intellectuals, observers and analysts uninformed about Indian politics so i am summarizing some of my articles on India & Modi to try to make western observers more informed about Modi & India. Read them to know what Modi did to India. I wrote the book (it's free