: Modi government’s actions against the Christian minority reveal a deep malaise within our society #IndiaNEWS The spate of attacks on churches in some states of India, even during the Christmas season

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Modi government’s actions against the Christian minority reveal a deep malaise within our society #IndiaNEWS
The spate of attacks on churches in some states of India, even during the Christmas season of 2021, is not as disturbing to me as five other actions taken by the current political dispensation. The disruptions of Christian religious services during Christmas may be both worrying and troublesome, but the regime can explain them away as the work of lumpens who have acted on their own. The regime is therefore not responsible. Such acts of vandalism, they promise, will be dealt with by “the full force of the law�.But the five actions that I find deeply distressing reveal to me a deeper malaise within our society. They deserve our collective consideration. The first is the incarceration and subsequent death of Stan Swamy, while still under custody as an undertrial under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. It is for me the ultimate diagnostic test of all that is wrong with Indian democracy. If we wish to answer the question that is often asked by observers of constitutional democracy – “How is India doing?� – do not look at the Freedom House rankings, or the Economist Intelligence Unit indices, or even the sophisticated International IDEA State of Democracy analysis. Just look at the treatment of...Read more

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