Explainer: Why Canada is a popular bogeyman in India
Scape @ Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:08 pm
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For most Canadians, it can be oddly easy to pay little mind to India and its politics, even as the country has recently been serving up the biggest protests in human history. In India’s political imagination, however, Canada occupies an outsized role, portrayed by its far-right government and supportive media as the home and enabler of diasporic radicals upon whom all manner of domestic ills can be blamed. In other words, Canada — and particularly its Sikh population — is a popular bogeyman in a place that, despite authoritarian slippage, remains the largest democracy on Earth.
How India Blames Canada (And Rihanna) For The Farmers Protest
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Baaz co-founder Jaskaran Sandhu breaks down why thousands of Indian farmers are camped out around Delhi, their connection to the Sikh and Punjabi diaspora here in Canada, and how his three-week-old newsletter plans to cover it.
Fascinating interview. Sikh's in Canada are used as a bogeyman in Indian politics and the government is clearly supremist and make Trumpism look normal.
DrCaleb @ Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:10 pm
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Fascinating interview. Sikh's in Canada are used as a bogeyman in Indian politics and the government is clearly supremist and make Trumpism look normal.
India takes race based politics to another level. I posted a story last week that Gandhi's killer has gone from evil to a patriot.
http://www.canadaka.net/news/111882-mah ... s-in-india
That's because Gandhis' idea that India was secular and had room for every religion have pretty much been destroyed by the BJP. India is for Hindus now. Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, can fuck off. Gandhi is also losing his ulster as a cultural icon.
xerxes @ Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:56 pm
Can confirm. Most Indian people I’ve talked with hate his guts.
DrCaleb @ Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:19 pm
And yet, Gandhi is still the same as he was 100 years ago. Just the party in power tells his story different.
And that's how Trumpanzees are created.