Thread on @IndiaToday 's concern for 'democracy' and ease with which its star journalists mouth cliches like 'authoritarian regime' to show down Modi Govt and paint #India in bleakest colours.
Same India Today justified Emergency and endorsed suspension of Rights.
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Same India Today justified Emergency and endorsed suspension of Rights.
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"It seemed incredible that our (India's) people should accept and welcome (Emergency) ... what Western commentators had chosen to describe variously, ranging from "temporary demise of democracy" to the "establishment of dictatorship."
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"Yet a visit to Hyderabad, Bangalore, Madras and Trivandrum showed that the people in the south have generally welcomed the declaration of Emergency and the sudden transformation it has brought about."
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"Many felt that the Emergency should have been clamped down much earlier. A few even went to the length of saying that what had been done now should have been done as far back as 1947."
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"The common man was held to ransom by militant workers and subjected to 'organized thugism'. Students contributed not a little to the tumult, spending most of their time in the streets or in union activity and elections, which often resulted in violence."
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"I was very nervous about coming to India after reading about the Emergency in Western newspapers," said Paul Stass, a Belgian. "Outwardly, nothing seems to have changed. In fact it seems a lot more peaceful now... The newspapers seem very restrained in their reporting."
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"Kuldip Singh, owner of a large liquor store and restaurant in Delhi, said the Emergency has made him realize that there was more to business than making money and that businessmen too had some other obligations to society."
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"Rajesh Malhotra, executive director of a firm manufacturing electrical components, said the Emergency has brought in its wake better industrial relations between the management and workers."
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"Dipankar Gupta, a second year economics student, said the Emergency had transformed Delhi University campus, which used to be the spawning ground of revolutionaries. The student unions had disappeared, attendance in classes had improved tremendously on pain of expulsion."
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"The June 26 1975 Emergency was a swift and silent Constitutional step which brought about immediate results. The protest marches, the wild scenes enacted by members of the Opposition in the Houses of Parliament ... suddenly vanished."
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"Devkanta Barooah stressed that if a handful of vocal and anti-democratic elements sought to destroy peace and stability at home, organised trade, industry, public administration, educational and economic institutions would cease functioning."
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"The Congress Party has taken a cautious stance between capitalists and workers. Recently, legislation was passed giving incentives to industrial enterprises and discouraging strikes by workers."
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"It had become a pattern with political parties to exploit college students and use them as storm troopers for their violent, political campaigning. Within one year student agitations had damaged property worth Rs 200 million. This year there have been none."
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"There has been worldwide concern about the curbs put on the Press since the Emergency. Mrs Gandhi has repeatedly said that she does not want to muzzle the press. But, the problem for democracies is to decide where freedom begins and responsibility ends."
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"Due to strict libel laws in West, the Press there rarely prints anything that cannot be substantiated. In India, the libel laws are such, the time involved is so lengthy, few consider it worth their while. The inbuilt restraints on the Western Press do not exist in India."
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"The Indian Press before the Emergency was at liberty to print any rumours or reports without documentation. It was in many ways a wild press. The obscene language used in headlines is an unheard of situation in the West."
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"What a handful would consider suppression, millions consider emancipation...a leader said recently, 'We can use the Emergency to boost tourism in India (with) the slogan: 'Come to India to see the Emergency. There has never been anything like this in any democracy before'."
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This groveling endorsement of the Emergency regime's excesses, suspension of rights and liberties, imprisonment of Opposition leaders and workers, prohibition of trade union activities, draconian MISA, disappearances, is now replaced by 'Speaking Truth to Power'.
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Violent student agitations that disrupt and vitiate campuses, strikes that cause destruction of public property, protests like Shahinbagh which lead to riots, Maoism, terrorism and separatism, intentional #FakeNews and wilful disinformation, all's kosher for same media now.
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Media like @IndiaToday which endorsed Emergency crimes, including Press Censorship, and ran stories from which quotes in this thread are excerpted, now want the world to believe the worst about #India . That's their fact-free agenda now, as was their fact-free agenda then.
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