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The Economy has slowed down but to say there is a ‘recession’ ahead, is an exaggeration: Here is the way out

Shishu Ranjan
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The Economy has slowed down but to say there is a ‘recession’ ahead, is an exaggeration: Here is the way out

The recent release of quarterly data on GDP growth rate has created panic among citizens of India and that too for the right reasons. The GDP growth rate plumed to 5% for Q2-2019, which is lowest since 2013-14, an era infamous for policy paralysis and corrupt practices of UPA II government led by former Prime Minister (PM) Dr Manmohan Singh. The news of 5% GDP growth rate initiated the debate on likely reasons and that debate has refused to die down. Among all the chaos, opposition comprising Congress, Left, Liberals, and Pseudo Intellectuals were seen rejoicing over this tragic economic news which clearly indicates the Vulture nature of these groups who are eagerly waiting for the blood of PM even at the cost of dying Indian Economy. The observed decrease in GDP is termed as Recession in Indian Economy without any conclusive evidence, whereas the data suggest a mere slow down in the growth rate.

The slowing down of economy is not being contested as it is conclusive from the data released. The growth rate has declined from a peak of 8.2% in 2015 to 5% in the latest quarter of 2019. However, this decline is the start of a recessionary period, is not conclusive by the trend observed in the various parameters of the economy. For example, the consumption of petroleum products, an input to the majority of economic activities, is marginally higher in Q2-19 (54,940 TMT) when compared to Q2-18 (54,366 TMT). Similarly, cement production has increased by more than 10% in Q2-19 when compared to Q2-18. These are just a few examples, but important ones as it tracks economic activities in the core sector. Therefore, the current decline may be mere cyclical in nature, where the economy has slowed down due to various reasons.

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Comparative quarterly growth and forecast

Lack of Demand vs. Shift in Demand

Now, let us analyze the trending reasons propagated by vulture group talked about earlier in this article. For them, it is the slow-down in Auto Sector which is the most important indicator of the start of economic recession. Let me ask them how auto sector demand represents the demand function of millions of Indian who are barely making their daily end meets. Car owning population is not more than 15% of India’s population (it was 5% as 2011 Census data) and therefore, the decline in a number of vehicles sold domestically is not an indication of the start of the recession. In fact, the highest-selling model in India are not low price cars, but hatchbacks and sedan models which costs a minimum of 6 lakh rupees on-road price. On top of that, the roads in urban space are already over-crowded and vehicle pollution is at a historic peak. In this case, the weakening of demand in auto sectors is a welcome change and government priority should have been in rapidly expanding public transport rather than providing stimulus to the auto sector. Auto sector economic loss could be compensated by overall social profit observed due to three factors i.e. reduction in loss of working hours due to traffic jams; reduction in vehicle pollution level; and net trade balance gain due to a reduction in oil demand.

Second most important argument quoted by these vulture groups is a reduction in Parley G Biscuit demand. This is complete nonsense to quote half baked data in order to suit the political propaganda of economic recession. As per the Nielson report, bigger packet biscuit and premium cookies sale has been growing in Q2-19. This probably indicates a shift in demand due to improved purchasing power and changing food preference with the rise in income. The theory of lack of demand is again busted with highest ever growth recorded in sales of smartphones in Q2-19. Smartphones are penetrating rural areas and costs between Rs. 3,000 to Rs. 15,000 for most selling models in India. This growth story itself conclusive evidence of demand being intact and therefore, the recent decline is most likely a slow-down rather than start of the recessionary period.

Potential Reasons for Slow-Down

Since there is a slow-down, there must be a reason for that. Economic slow-down is not resultant of any single factor, but the accumulation of multiple factors such as policy decisions, external factors, economic sentiments, political and economic stability. Again, the vulture group attributes this slow-down to barely twin policy decision of Demonetization and GST Implementation. Demonetization impact on the formal economy was minimal as the liquidity was always available in the form of non-cash methods. It impacted the informal economy surviving out of cash transactions. However, the impact got minimized in a quarter when the economy was re-monetized with new notes of Rs. 2000 and 500. Digital payment network expansion also helped in minimizing this impact. GST implementation had also been streamlined and especially for small traders. The informal economy is still outside the purview of GST implementation and therefore, it has not impacted the informal economy significantly.

However, a parallel economy running out of black money earned through corrupt means had a severe impact and has not been able to revive its fortune. This led to a reduction in demand from these population strata which were thriving on this parallel economy. For example, the real estate sector was infamous for investment and generation of black money through corrupt practices. This resulted in skyrocketing of prices, even though the demand by the genuine buyer was hardly increasing. Surplus black money parked into housing units resulted in an oversupply of housing units and that is clearly evident from the current prices which have not declined significantly despite oversupply maintained for almost last five years. Therefore, the slump in real estate sector is mainly due to choking of black economy which resulted in reduced construction activities and therefore, cascaded the slump to other major ancillary sectors such as iron and steel, cement, sand, brick and kiln, home furnishing, paint, and other associated industries.

If the reduction in parallel and black economy is the real reason for the slow-down of the Indian economy, it is completely justified. Rooting out the black economy is beneficial in the long run and this is a major step towards achieving a sustained growth rate for converting Indian developing economy into a developed one. No developed economy runs a parallel black economy as large as India and that is why this surgery on the black economy was long needed. The current slow-down of the Indian economy is similar to weakness observed in a cancer patient while going through the treatment. However, the treatment is necessary to prevent death and once completed, the health improves to its best. If the treatment is necessary, is it sufficient? The answer is no and therefore, additional steps should be taken to improve the health of the economy post-black money cancer treatment.

Potential Solutions

Since there is slow-down, there must be an attempt to rescue the economy from this situation. The most important step in this direction would be to increase the saving and investment rate in the Indian economy. Domestic private saving is the key to achieve this goal. The government should incentivize increasing the saving rate and investing that saving into capital formation. Expenditure into capital formation would create long term employment, enhance the competitiveness of Indian industries, increase the output and employment, and reduce the prices. Increased employment and reduced prices will result in an increase in purchasing power of individuals and therefore, boost the demand. On the external side, increased competitiveness of Indian industries will result in increased exports and thus, will reduce the current account deficit. Reduced current account deficit will help the government to continue to spend on essential infrastructures such as transportation, health, and education.

On the monetary side of the government policy, merger of banks will help in reducing the Non-Performing Assets (NPA) through better management, capital infusion, and improved recoveries. Government has to remove the fear of prosecution from minds of honest bank officials as well as honest businessmen. There is always a genuine risk with business opportunities taken and therefore, a failure in business of banking by honest individuals should be separated from wilful defaulters and corrupt practices and should be saved from harassment by prosecuting agencies such as ED, CBI, Vigilance, etc.

Conclusion

Overall, it is clear that the economy has slowed down and is not at its full potential growth path. However, it is wrong to conclude that it is the start of a recession which will take a long time to recede. On the contrary, the situation is conducive to start a new phase of growth in the Indian economy which is more formalized and more digital. The most important task for the government is to increase the saving and investment rate in the Indian economy and improve the business sentiment by removing the fear of prosecution from honest bankers and businessmen. These two steps itself will lead to achieving higher and sustained growth rate in the medium and long term.

Congress to draw inspiration from RSS, to get ‘preraks’ to spread the message of the party

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Congress to draw inspiration from RSS, to get ‘preraks’ to spread the message of the party

After demonising RSS for almost 70 years for offering an alternative brand of politics to the country, the Congress party seems inclined to take a leaf out of RSS’ book in enacting structural reforms. Drawing inspiration from the RSS, Sonia Gandhi-led Congress is mulling over adopting RSS-like “Preraks” for turning around the fortunes of the party.

According to reports, Congress is set to appoint ‘Preraks’ or ‘messengers’ at the district level across the country to give a fillip to its mass contact programme. The state units of Congress have been instructed to identify local leaders from the party who will be imparted training for several days. The report said that these selected Preraks will be assigned to work on the party agenda and look after party work similarly like Pracharaks in the RSS.

Sonia Gandhi also added that it was not enough to be aggressive only on social media as democracy is in peril and mandate was misused by the incumbent government. “Democracy is in peril and the government is misusing the mandate provided to it. Freedom fighters and leaders like Gandhi, Patel, Ambedkar are being appropriated by the BJP with the singular purpose of misinterpreting their true messages to further their evil agenda. Merely being active on social media is not enough, the party should have agitational agenda to counter the government,” Sonia Gandhi said.

It is noteworthy to mention that Sonia Gandhi’s comments come a day after the Congress Twitter account drew flak for its juvenile social media campaign against the Finance Minister N Sitharaman’s statement regarding the slowdown in the auto sector.


This is for the first time that Congress party is identifying local leaders and entrusting them with such responsibilities. The party has placed stress on the training program of the party cadre to challenge government agenda and also bring about a policy change of party to invest greater power in grass-root level leaders after it fared disastrously in a string of elections.

With the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi just days away, the Congress is preparing to organise a nationwide padyatras across the country, wearing Gandhi topis and holding seminars. Chairing a meeting with senior Congress members such as Dr Manmohan Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, the interim president of the party-Sonia Gandhi possibly discussed about Gandhi Jayanti preparations, membership drive and party worker training.

Hindustan Times journalist accuses the media outlet of transferring her after Capt. Amrinder Singh’s complaint

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Hindustan Times journalist accuses the media outlet of transferring her after Capt. Amrinder Singh’s complaint

Sukhdeep Kaur, a journalist with Hindustan Times, has claimed that she was transferred to Delhi by the media outlet in the middle of her children’s academic session after Captain Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab, complained to the chairperson of the company against her.


Kaur further claimed that her salary for the month of August was withheld after she refused to accept the transfer and her contract, which was due for renewal in September, hasn’t been renewed.


One of her reports from August speaks of an amendment to a bill that would have made the Punjab state government bear the tax liability for the perks enjoyed by Captain Amarinder Singh. The original bill passed by the Congress government earlier mandated that ministers in the state cabinet pay taxes on their own for the same.

While Hindustan Times is yet to issue a statement on the matter, it is a widely known fact that the nexus of Congress politicians and media houses run deep. While bigwigs in the media often accuse the BJP of undermining the media’s ability to report facts, Congress has long been known for gagging voices and using various tactics to create a compliant ecosystem.

If Western ‘liberals’ can whitewash 9/11, imagine what they did to our history

Abhishek Banerjee
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If Western ‘liberals’ can whitewash 9/11, imagine what they did to our history

This is from the New York freaking Times, the supposed newspaper of record. See? It is now the “airplanes” which took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. The Islamic jihadis who were piloting those planes no longer exist in liberal memory.

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Interestingly, the number of victims of the terrorist attack has also been reduced, from close to 3000 to 2000. That’s a 33 percent reduction, less than twenty years after the attack happened.

After much ridicule, the New York Times deleted the tweet and posted a new one, still failing to mention Islamists anywhere.

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3000 people were “lost”? You mean like in the Bermuda Triangle? Thankfully, they got around to using the term “terror attacks” somewhere in the tweet.

One can imagine the New York Times newsroom, the eggheads sitting around, racking their brains, trying to come up with a way to mention 9/11 without any reference to Islamism. Language is a funny thing.

It is a symptom of just how much power Islamism exerts over the free world today. From human rights to feminism, every cause in the free world has been made subservient to the demands of Islamism. In the case of India, the old Western prejudices about Hindus have been reinforced by Islamist hatred for pagans and idolaters.  If you are wondering how a hate filled Hinduphobe could have been embedded as NPR producer in Delhi, there’s your answer.

In just twenty years, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 have been reduced to a footnote in global liberal discourse. The event is mentioned in dodgy language that obscures as much as possible who were the villains behind it.

Instead, “Islamophobia” is all the rage now, even if much of it is imagined.

How much has 9/11 become a footnote? An elected US Congresswoman by the name of Ilhan Omar referred to it recently as “some people did something.” The entire American liberal complex stepped in to defend her words. Incidentally, Ilhan Omar was speaking at an event organized by the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was an un-indicted co-conspirator in a case involving terror funding in Palestine.

Yeah, that much of a footnote. You can go ahead and click the Washington Post link about this matter, which makes excuses for CAIR by saying  that the un-indicted co-conspirator thing is “true fact” that “lacks context.” Yeah, “lacks context.” Imagine being on a plane, when the passenger beside you says they were connected to Al Qaeda, but in a way that “lacks context.”

Now think about this : if they can whitewash 9/11, what have these liberals done to the interpretation of our several thousand year old history?

Look no further from what they have done even to our recent history. The Godhra carnage of 2002 has been wiped out of public memory. Even when it is mentioned, it is always presented as a controversy about who actually did it. Despite the fact that the offenders have all been identified and their sentences confirmed by the High Court a very long time ago. The truth has been forgotten, the smears remain.

In fact, the smears and conspiracy theories about Godhra are gradually being turned into the universally accepted version of history.

This is what happens to recorded history from 2002.

For propagandists of this magnitude, how simple is it to distort history from 1000 or more years ago, history that has to be surmised by piecing together scraps of evidence that are hard to come by?

The most infamous of these would of course be the Aryan invasion Theory (AIT). Yes, the liberal historians of today, led by their Emeritus queen, claim they never believed in AIT, but in the migration theory. Technically, they are right. But they had a far more devious strategy on AIT : first, they observe a strategic silence on the issue, allowing the AIT (and the Hinduphobia that comes with it) to circulate freely in the public sphere. The second is even more clever : they use the word “migration” for everything, including the Islamic invasions of India. Thus, the difference between “migration” and “invasion” is rendered meaningless. Yes, it’s devious. We are not dealing with amateurs here, but with established professionals with impressive CVs built in the course of their propaganda careers.

So how do we get back our past?

The old system is now so flawed, so moth eaten and so bigoted that it needs to be discarded in its entirety. The solution is long and painstaking and will likely not yield immediate results. The propaganda edifice of modern liberalism was not built in a day: nor will it go away in a day. We have to start from the ground level, building a whole new group of institutions that will question everything, write thousands of new books and operate with highest standards of academic rigor. You can’t “change” the textbooks because they are beyond redemption. The solution is to write new ones. For this, we will require an entirely new generation of professional historians who start afresh, from the same place where colonial historians began over a hundred and fifty years ago. No easy quick fixes.

Indian history as it is told in the official version, has failed. It’s worthless and a lie. We have to reread and rewrite everything.

Pakistan minister admits international community trusts India on Kashmir, blames its ‘ruling elite’ for destroying country’s image

OpIndia Staff
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Pakistan minister admits international community trusts India on Kashmir, blames its ‘ruling elite’ for destroying country’s image

Coming as a major embarrassment to Imran Khan, Pakistan Interior Minister Brig. Ijaz Ahmed Shah admitted on record that Pakistan has failed to convince the international community. He is heard saying that people across the globe trust India, not Pakistan, on Kashmir.

Speaking on Wednesday on a Pakistani news channel, Shah also blamed Pakistan’s ‘ruling elite’ including PM Imran Khan for destroying the image of the country. He furthered that Pakistan should now do some soul searching.


“People do not believe us. In the international community. We say they (India) imposed curfew in Kashmir, they are not giving medicines to people, people are being beaten, there is no food for the people but nobody believes us. They trust India. The ruling elite has destroyed the country and its name. We lost it. People believe that we are not a responsible nation,” he said.

On being asked by the anchor whether Prime Minister Imran Khan, late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, retired Pakistan Army general and former President Pervez Musharraf and others were a part of the ‘ruling elite’, Pakistan’s Interior minister said, “It is not a one person’s role. Everyone has played a role. Pakistan should now do a soul searching.”

Shah’s remarks came at the backdrop of their Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’ remark in the recent UNHRC session in Geneva, where he claimed that India has transformed Jammu and Kashmir into the largest “caged prison on this planet” after the abrogation of Article 370 and that Human rights were being “trampled with impunity” in the region.

Notably, Qureshi is the same Pakistani Minister who in a grand Freudian slip at Geneva admitted that Kashmir is very much a part of India.

Pakistan as been spooked ever since India has gone ahead to revoke Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir which gave a special status to the state and also bifurcated it into two UTs. It has been running pillar to post trying to internationalise the Kashmir issue but has failed every attempt. Parody nation Pakistan has been shunned globally for its stereotypical rhetorics over Kashmir but the perturbed country refuses to abstain.

Apart from knocking all International doors, indulging in spreading malicious news and misinformation through various social media platforms and trying and creating chaos by pushing terrorists into the Valley, Pakistan’s Prime Minister plans to organise a ‘Big Jalsa’ in PoK’s Muzaffarabad on Friday to register protest against India even though his ‘standing for Kashmir’ stunt failed spectacularly.

Meet Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, one of the most deranged men in parody country Pakistan

Shashank Bharadwaj
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Meet Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, one of the most deranged men in parody country Pakistan

Pakistan, the cradle of Islamic terrorism, apart from representing the evil forces has also given the most deranged individuals to the world. One among them is Fawad Ahmed Chaudhry, also known as Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, the current heartthrob of Pakistan and Indian liberals, known for his Twitter antics and fake propaganda.

Chaudhry is now being humiliated by his own tweets as social media users have started digging out his old tweets.


He doesn’t really hold the Madarsas in high regard.


As someone who believes Pakistan produces best suicide bombers (the tweet where he said this is now deleted), he doesn’t really like the places which according to him produce them!


As it can be seen, he fondly refers to Madarsas as ‘suicide bomber making factories’.


Perhaps he’s just juvenile who posts WhatsApp forwarded messages without understanding what exactly they mean (which could be attributed to his low IQ), Hussain also has a little problematic views on marriage and relationships.


Because one hopes he means it when he says he opposes child marriage.


However, in the same breath, he is also oblivious of the fact that there are gay men in Pakistan.


But then when he has free time, he likes to trend hashtags on Twitter (we’re not sure if it was his way of earning extra income by doing paid tweets as an influencer).


The current minister of science and technology of Pakistan’s biggest fear if ‘Taliban’ comes (perhaps to power in Pakistan) is not of terror but of using khachhar (mule) as mode of transport.

From getting verbally thrashed by journalist Arnab Goswami to performing the role of parody country Pakistan’s Science and Technology Minister, Fawad has come a long way. Fawad Chaudhary’s display of deranged behaviour on the internet has made quite a sensation, to put it mildly. He is trending across social media platforms providing free and quality entertainment to users.

He became a laughing stock across the media after he was trapped by Indian social media activists following the revocation of the special status provisions of Jammu and Kashmir. It all started when Fawad Hussain in a show of his foolishness, had issued an appeal to Punjabis in India to refuse to serve the Indian Army in Kashmir after India revoked Article 370.

Soon, Chaudhary fell prey to the Indian right-wing meme team on Twitter, making himself a clown on social media. The Federal Minister for Science & Technology in Pakistan, Fawad Hussain was made to look like a fool after Pokershash, a popular account on Twitter had sent a direct message to Hussain where he had sent images of Bollywood actors to claim that they were RAW agents posted in Pakistan.

The humiliation inflicted upon to Fawad Chaudhary is not just limited to Indian social media users. In fact, the amount of respect that he receives in his own country is much less than he gets in social media. During a debate in Pakistan’s National Assembly, a Pakistan senator had likened Minister Fawad Chaudhry to a pet dog by calling him ‘dabbu’.

Fawad Chaudhary has time and again displayed that his IQ level is beyond redemption as for more than once now he has turned out to be the favourite bunny of Indian social media activists.

The dull-witted Fawad Hussain recently took to Twitter to tell the world that ‘informed sports commentators’ have told him that India had threatened Sri Lankan players that they will be ousted from Indian Premier League (IPL) if they don’t cancel their Pakistan tour. His tweets comes after Sri Lankan cricket players had decided to pull out of Pakistan tour following a security scare.

Except, Fawad Chaudhry’s tweet came hours after a prankster had sent him the very same message to him on WhatsApp that the decision by Sri Lanka was taken after the IPL authorities threatened Sri Lankan players that they would be thrown out of IPL if they go to Pakistan.

There seems to be no end to the lunacies of Pakistan and its citizens. Parody country Pakistan is an embarrassment in itself. After Indian government abrogated Article 370 which gave Jammu & Kashmir a separate status, Pakistani leaders are busy outdoing each other in proving who is a bigger idiot.

Muslim man becomes Hindu to marry a girl, becomes Muslim again after marriage, SC asks him to file affidavit

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Muslim man becomes Hindu to marry a girl, becomes Muslim again after marriage, SC asks him to file affidavit

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked a Muslim man, who had converted to Hinduism to marry a Hindu woman, to prove that his conversion was genuine. The court asked him to file an affidavit stating the same after the woman’s father moved the court alleging that the man’s conversion to Hinduism was a shame using forged documents and he had reverted to Islam soon after the marriage.

The incident is from Chhattisgarh where the Muslim man had married a Hindu girl in February last year after allegedly converting to Hinduism. Soon after the marriage, the father had lodged a complaint with the Supreme Court saying that the conversion was fake, and the girl had also expressed her willingness to go back to her parents. Accordingly, the court had passed an order and the girl went to her parental home.

But the man had filed a complaint with the police, and the police took the girl away and put in Sakhi centre. Later in High Court, the girl made a statement wiling to live with the man. When the High Court allowed her to live with her husband, her father approached the Supreme Court. The father said that the girl is not in a fit medical condition, and she is on medication for a long time because of depression and suicidal tendencies.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the father, said that the conversion was sham as the man had reverted to Islam after the marriage, and said that the court should examine the issue as there is a racket in the name of inter-religious marriages.

But the bench of Justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah suggested that the religion of the man does not matter as long as his wife does not suffer. They said the court is for inter-faith and inter-caste marriages, and not against such kind of living together. The court said there is nothing wrong in inter-religious or inter-caste marriages but the interest of girls must be protected.

Emphasising that the must be a loyal husband a great lover, the court explained that they asked the man to prove his good intentions by filing an affidavit, to secure the future and safety of the girl. ‘We want to know whether he has converted for marriage or otherwise, has he changed his name? Has he taken all legal steps to change the name?’ the court asked in its oral order.

The man’s counsel senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi said that the court can’t intervene the choice of a woman to decide with whom she wants to live her life with. He said that the court can summon the girl to know ger response.

Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, representing the girl, submitted that she wanted live with her husband.

Hearing all the arguments, the Supreme Court asked the man to submit his affidavit. The court also allowed the intervention application of the girl. The court also sought reply from the state government on the issue.

Faulty Factchecker shuts down hate crime database possibly due to lack of funds: Consequences of a new political order?

K Bhattacharjee
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Faulty Factchecker shuts down hate crime database possibly due to lack of funds: Consequences of a new political order?

IndiaSpend’s faulty FactChecker.in, which has a track record of manipulating facts to suit their preconceived agenda, has finally decided to pull down the ‘Hate Crime Watch’ (HCW) after being exposed several times for Hinduphobia and bias. In a series of tweets, factchecker.in announced that HCW was moving to a ‘new home’.

Newslaundry reported that the digital portal was suffering a financial crunch lately. The departure of a ‘key member’ contributed to the outcome as well. The media outlet mentioned unnamed sources saying that the digital portal was facing pressure from its entities. If this is indeed true, we can only speculate what the reasons behind the ‘pressure’ were.

The most obvious, of course, is that the investors were horrified with how their money was being used. Perhaps they felt pangs of guilt troubling their conscience as they saw the manner in which the database they funded was dividing within the country. Or maybe they realized the agenda that was being peddled was simply indefensible. Leftists will, no doubt, argue that it is further evidence of the ‘Undeclared Emergency’ that has gripped the country. The actual truth could very well be that the investors got sick of the agenda that was being peddled with their money and therefore, they asked them to pack their bags.

Factchecker.in’s biases and Hinduphobia isn’t really a secret. The database was tailormade to paint Hindus as villains and all Muslims as victims of the oppressive ‘Hindu Fascism’. We, at OpIndia.com, have reported on it extensively. A great deal of credit must go to Swati Goel Sharma of Swarajya Mag who has worked relentlessly to expose the database’s nefarious agenda. The Left might blame ‘Hindu Fascism’ again for the shutting down of HCW. But in truth, its rabid propaganda is much more likely to be the reason.

It’s been a good couple of days for Hindus on social media. First, a bigoted Hinduphobic journalist at National Public Radio was forced to resign after she suggested on Twitter that Indians would do well to quit Hinduism as it would help them in getting away from ‘piss drinking’ and ‘dung worshipping’. Her usage of the Pulwama terrorist’s rhetoric sparked a huge outrage on social media following she submitted her resignation at NPR. And now, the Hinduphobic database has been pulled down.

Unfortunately, people who use the same language as the NPR journalist and worse in India for the Hindu community continue to be regarded as ‘esteemed journalists’ and ‘intellectuals’ in India. It appears Western liberals have a slight bit more integrity than their Indian counterparts and that’s saying something.

Recent events also demonstrate the cultural change that is underway in the country with the reelection of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister. It appears Hinduphobic entities have realized that it’s no longer feasible to continue with their hateful rhetoric. One can only hope that people are experiencing a genuine change of heart. However, it’s far more likely that they are trying their best to survive in an apparently hostile political climate.

Radio Holocaust: Here is how NPR normalises genocidal Hinduphobia

Vamsee K Juluri
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Radio Holocaust: Here is how NPR normalises genocidal Hinduphobia

There has been tremendous pain and fear among Hindu listeners of National Public Radio over an incredibly insensitive, intolerant, and hateful tweet from an NPR producer (and coauthor of several recent NPR articles on India), Furkan Khan.

Now deleted tweet by Furhan Khan

This producer has since apologized, and NPR has shared with concerned Hindu organizations that she has also resigned from NPR.

NPR’s apology
This man called his victims “impure polytheistic cow-piss drinkers” in this video before blowing them up earlier this year. “Cow-piss” and “Cow-dung” are now common racist smears hurled at Hindus by mass killers and professors and journalists alike.
India’s most famous journalists, Indian-origin (and of late self-identified “Hindu”) professors in Europe, Cops, celebrities, all normalizing the same slurs about Hinduism as cow-dung and cow-piss worship that NPR’s journalist and JeM’s suicide bomber promoted.

However, it is not just the particlular employee that seems to have a twisted view of India, Hinduism and the workings of Islamic terrorism.

A Fanonian “White Woman and the Man of Color” Moment in which Lauren infantilizes people who would, had they been born in other skin colors, perhaps be called “Gymnasts” or “Yogis” and not “pole-dancers” in “underpants.”
“Blaming the victim.” A classic racist trope as described by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam. Kashmiri Hindus, the victims of a violent religious pogrom, are described as somehow being “weaponized”

A group of Hindus have started a change.org petition to appeal to NPR to review the Hinduphobic stand taken in its coverage and a more ethical and balanced approach towards reporting on Hinduism and Hindus.

(This article was originally published on Meduim.com and has been reproduced here with the author’s permission)

Kathua: Three terrorists carrying arms and ammunition in truck arrested, six AK-47 rifles recovered

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Kathua: Three terrorists carrying arms and ammunition in truck arrested, six AK-47 rifles recovered

According to SSP Kathua, a truck carrying arms and ammunition has been recovered in the Jammu and Kashmir region. As per initial reports, three terrorists have been arrested and six AK-47 rifles along with Rs 4.5 lakh cash have been recovered from them.

The arms and ammunition were recovered during routine checking at Lakhanpur border in Kathua. It is reported that the weapons were being brought to Srinagar from Amritsar in Punjab. The truck was having Srinagar number plate.

Following the abrogation of Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan has time and again threatened India with ‘attacks’. There has also been an increased threat of terror attacks initiated by Pakistan supported by the Pakistan’s spy agency, ISI.

Earlier today we had reported how the Indian security agencies have recently cracked some code words being used by the Pakistani Army and terrorist groups along the other side of LoC to communicate with terrorists active inside Jammu and Kashmir. As per reports, the coded messages are being sent through FM stations installed along the LoC in PoK.

There had also been a sudden surge in the instances of ceasefire violation by Pakistan along the LoC at different sectors. A report by the Indian Army has mentioned that since August 5, there had been over 300 instances of ceasefire violation by Pakistan.

Many attempts by Pakistan’s BAT forces and terrorist groups to push infiltrators have also been thwarted by Indian forces.

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