That's only half of what is wrong with NOTA. The other half is that the voters who use NOTA are more likely to be the educated and mindful ones... and the party that was in power when NOTA was implemented, wanted such voters to squander their votes.
How is it possible for the BJP and Modi to be so popular? First, because of the bulk of the BJP’s political support comes from the rural and more backward areas of this huge country who have not benefited from the strident rise of Indian capitalism in the cities.
Untrue and blatantly so. BJP was more popular in urban areas, and its urban base has grown.
Of late though, support for BJP has also grown in rural areas, but that does not take away the fact that BJP has always been the party of urban, educated, middle class of India.
The second reason is the total failure over the decades of the main capitalist party and standard bearer of Indian independence, the Congress party, to deliver better living standards and conditions for the hundreds of millions, not only in the country but in the city slums. Congress appears to millions as the party of the establishment controlled by a family dynasty (the Gandhis), while the BJP appears to many as the populist party of the forgotten people.
A Short history lesson
The original congress party was divided into two in the times of Indra Gandhi. The seniors of the party had expelled Indra Gandhi and she formed an entirely new party called Congress (I), while the original party continued, but with diminishing base. This original parry ultimately merged into Janta Dal, while Congress (I) became today's Indian National Congress (INC).
Janta Dal, containing the original Congress party, also diminished with time and under leadership of Subramaniam Swamy it has recently merged with BJP.
So, BJP of today contains the non-dynasty part of the original Congress, and has full right to claim all leaders before Indra Gandhi as its legacy, including Gandhi and Nehru, Indra's father.
Problems of INC/dynasty congress
Problem with the dynasty Congress is not just non-fulfillment of promises made to the urban poor, but also that the dynasty has utterly failed to rein in corruption which has become associated with the party's rule.
Besides, the dynasty is losing its rural base to BJP and minority support to, well, almost every other party. That the dynasty party has failed to create strong image of any dynasty member even half as strong as Modi's image is not going to help them either.
They can't do what they are doing here without an intent to violate privacy.
Which ISPs offer IPv6 for free?
Asking for a friend.
odf/odt/ods
.md
SimpleX
Matrix
OpenPGP
Last, certainly not least... ActivityPub
Good sir, what exactly do you refer to when you use the word civilization? The white man’s imaginary burden?
You start right away with a malicious falsehood to start justifying your uncivilized ambitions.
All I asked here is a question, and suggested the most probable answer in most simple form. You could have given a different answer, but...
Branding civilized behaviour as white man’s burden is a low effort attempt at discrediting it. You need only common sense and sense of justice to understand what civilized behavior is. But your vested agendas won’t fly if you do.
You don't explain your notion of civilization, but want me to deal with your notion of common sense, justice and civilized behavior.
Why?
In addition, India's constitution is a uniquely Indian creation. There is nothing like it in the world. The attempt to stamp it as a vestige of colonial rule is part of a revisionist agenda with vested interests.
Shri Ambedkar, unapologetically disagrees:
“As to the accusation that the Draft Constitution has reproduced a good part of the provisions of the Government of India Act, 1935, I make no apologies. There is nothing to be ashamed of in borrowing. It involves no plagiarism. Nobody holds any patent rights in the fundamental ideas of a Constitution….”
There used to be entire chapter worth of material to mug up for exams on which feature of Indian constitution is borrowed from which white country in textbooks.
Did you skip all of that in school?
From madarssas, to waqf to AIMPL… India has been acting as a minority theocracy in the garb of secularism. Indian citizens are no longer tolerating that and that scares lots of beneficiaries of british legacy systems. Mere suggestion of uniform law makes so many cultures cry.
Ha! What a joke! Repeating lies like a Nazi won’t make it true. Hindus aren’t just the majority in India, it isn’t hard to see that only the majority interests are given any priority under the current regime. Yet we see dog whistles like these where you falsely play the victim to justify imposition of more medieval sensibilities.
There. You just lost entire argument by Godwin's Law. Prepare better for next time.
I don't know what you're getting at, but the Indian constitution is the last vestige of civilization there is in India.
Good sir, what exactly do you refer to when you use the word civilization? The white man's imaginary burden?
Some people want to replace it with a theocracy. If you're implying that's what India's citizens want, that's a complete mischaracterization. Only deranged and brain washed people would want that. Innocent people who have no say in it - especially the next generation, will be the biggest losers in such a draconian change.
From madarssas, to waqf to AIMPL... India has been acting as a minority theocracy in the garb of secularism. Indian citizens are no longer tolerating that and that scares lots of beneficiaries of british legacy systems. Mere suggestion of uniform law makes so many cultures cry.
And finally, the quoted write up is in British language... which is not the language of desi voters, and will never be.
It's better than pretending that Hindi is the national language.
Better for whom? For a few thousand families that hold much power since the time of the British, and will not leave their power and priviledge without a fight... and no, this is not about making hindi the national language. It is about seeing a corrupt and oppressive system as what it is, and knocking out its rotting pillars.
What we have right now is a violation of the federal system of India ...
Hold that thought. a nation is not its system. Nation is people, and people's assets. the system and government are not ends, but means of peace and prosperity of the people. and India's system is no different. It is not an end in itself, and any ideology which begins by making system as an end belongs to the dustbin, not to human brains.
... where one language - Hindi, is given importance over all the other regional languages, ...
English is the only language with undue advantage over others. That advantaged must be removed, no matter how hard the old families of power fight it. Hate against Hindi is a bogeyman to defend continuing English. But the days of English are coming to an end. Better push for a multiple language system, if you are scared of Hindi in particular.
... ultimately translating to an undue advantage for Hindi speakers. It has already started to feel like the rest of India is a colony of Hindi speaking states. It's better to have a language from a colonial past, rather than the language of active colonizers.
Those who want to continue being chained, will continue being chained. And slaves do not get to choose their masters.
British legacy, not just their language, is weakening each decade and a new, more Indian system is emerging. Instead of fighting the emerging system, try to make sure that your own culture/language finds the strongest place in it.
What is wrong with India?
voluntary fast ≠ forced hunger
Hindus and muslims are familiar with the former.
at the minimum, someone should vote out the "free bijli, free paani" politicians, even if they escape justice.
Indian constitution isn't even ratified by voters. It was written and adopted by a British era legislature. This is the reason Indian system it is top down and has so many British legacy features.
The British legacy is so hard to get rid off that even renaming of metropolitan cities (Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Bamgalore, etc) was done after 50+ years of independence.
And finally, the quoted write up is in British language... which is not the language of desi voters, and will never be. It is the language of British, and the Indian elite who have some standing in this legacy system.
I'd be happy to be corrected, but there is no clear definition of what constitutes science, short of blindly following authority of some institution prone to funding politics.
In medicine, funding is known to be ultimately controlled by big corporates, making "established science" murkier than, say, the science of standardization of units.
EDIT : last line, grammar