Originally posted by: TorinoPasta
I hope Modi and Amit Shah start the ritual of washing their mouths with harpic 1st..although the filth they have spread over the years cannot be wiped out in a lifetime also.
It's not the first time, that, when those in power lose touch with reality, it is the thinking Youth who holds a mirror up to society... and it always brought changes.
The - still far too much - Indian colonialisation-trauma induced craving for Western validation that this government mirrors on the outside falls back into corruption-lead behaviour in the inside.
To me, there are fascinating and profound parallels between the generation fighting the Vietnam War and today's CJP students in India:
- The US government then lied to the public for years about the course of the Vietnam War. Young people realized that the political establishment was corrupt and was using them as cannon fodder in a senseless war.
- The Modi government and its institutions tried to downplay the massive fraud within the education system. The Indian youth realized that their lifetimes and futures were being sacrificed to corruption.
Both Youth movements understood that you do not fight a brutal system with its own weapons (e.g.violence, lies, arrogance, informationmanipulation, threats), but rather by disarming it morally and intellectually in the most peaceful way possible. Both movements made the existing state power look like the failures they indeed were.
(These are just two examples of the way students tried to change a political landscape... in Germany it had been 1942 The White Rose during the Nazi regime and then Rudi Dutschke in 1968 and the fight against 'institutional arrogance'.)
Edited by Clochette - 5 hours ago
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