Delhi.
Amit Shah, the henchman of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says that his party – the BJP – would need to remain in power for twenty-five years to inaugurate acche din or the good days. This is a terrifying thought. Half the households in rural India live in abject poverty, with half the workers in rural India confined to the deprivations of manual labor. There is no future for them in Modi’s India. Twenty-five years is a prison sentence.
Money.
The main ruling class political formations in India are united on the path of development, namely to enrich the rich at all costs. The government pries open areas of social wealth to the corporate sector – accumulation by extraction and dispossession, allowing for the mining of minerals and pension funds. It is easy money for the powerful. None of this is questioned.
Disagreements come at the level of “corruption.” Anti-corruption is the order of the day. This is a sanctified language. It is the mirror of the IMF’s discourse of “good governance.” Nobody is for corruption. But they are for the enrichment of the propertied camouflaged as enrichment of the people in general. The path of development engenders corruption, which then on occasion erupts into scandals. Full story...
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Amit Shah, the henchman of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says that his party – the BJP – would need to remain in power for twenty-five years to inaugurate acche din or the good days. This is a terrifying thought. Half the households in rural India live in abject poverty, with half the workers in rural India confined to the deprivations of manual labor. There is no future for them in Modi’s India. Twenty-five years is a prison sentence.
Money.
The main ruling class political formations in India are united on the path of development, namely to enrich the rich at all costs. The government pries open areas of social wealth to the corporate sector – accumulation by extraction and dispossession, allowing for the mining of minerals and pension funds. It is easy money for the powerful. None of this is questioned.
Disagreements come at the level of “corruption.” Anti-corruption is the order of the day. This is a sanctified language. It is the mirror of the IMF’s discourse of “good governance.” Nobody is for corruption. But they are for the enrichment of the propertied camouflaged as enrichment of the people in general. The path of development engenders corruption, which then on occasion erupts into scandals. Full story...
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