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News and Current Affairs / Re: India - deteriorating?
« Last post by Bullet500 on Today at 07:08:07 am »1) The difference being the BJP seeks to turn that on it's head and reduce the amount of entropy where as the "opposition" would prefer the feudal structures to line their own pockets and keep power. One is venturing bravely into the unknown, the other exhibits a timid cowardice and sticks to shore and is simply unable to cater to the awakening and ambition of the Dharmic soulerr, it's the same kind of feudal idiots in BJP and the same kind of feudal idiots in Congress.
2) Another spectacular own goal is the "opposition" attacking the Hindu culture due to caste (rightly so) then relying on it during elections but incapable of giving credit where it is due (and there is much to be grateful for the Sanātana Dharma). Then they hide behind platitudes of "All cultures are equal" and any criticism of other cultures brushed of as -phobic. Let us be frank, there is no "propaganda" to blame here apart from their own inconsistencies. The confluence of philosophers, ascetics, poets and writers that have shaped the broad arcs of the Sanātana Dharma are the greatest in the history of humankind. One book of Hindu philosophy alone goes further in explaining the human condition than any library from anywhere.
What is here can be found elsewhere, what is not can be found nowhere - Mahābhārata
The truth is, there is not much to Sanatan Dharma or way of life apart from varnashrama and eventual caste segregation. No matter how people may morph the scriptures now - "ohh it wasn't supposed to be birth based". Now when books that are considered 'smriti' have some crap, people say.. "ohh, shruti have the authority".
3) Remittances do not count towards GDP but money doesn't vanish when it enters Kerala. It boosts the purchasing power of the households that receive it and their spending in housing, education, comforts etc boost the numbers from the service sector. No wonder there is an influx of Northern migrants to Kerala to work these service jobs. The outward migration of Malyalees dwarfs the outward migration from neighbouring states like Karnataka and Tamil Nadu which actually produce something of value. I am a Kannadiga, from Bengaluru and in hospitality the bulk of the workers are Nepalis, North-Easterners and Malyalees. If Kerala is so great then you wonder what the Malyalees are doing with members from the poorest regions of India and Nepal where the per-capita income is ~25% that of Kerala. All just a mirage that one day will crumble.Industry's share of Kerala's GDP = 23%
Industry's share of Karnataka's GDP = 19%
Not bad. Pretty much the Karnataka level. And, there is no harm in movement of labour. There are a lot of people from BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh working in South India, absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Let's look at Karnataka's remittances for a non-COVID year for example: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/the-pandemic-impact-on-remittances-11658171745218.html (premium article, so here's the screenshot - https://i.imgur.com/j3xiqKB.png)
As % of total inward remittances to India:
Kerala - 19%
Karnatala - 15%
Not that big of a difference in the two things you claimed. The good thing about Kerala is that it doesn't have poverty like North Karnataka does.
4) Kerala is run by communists so it is no surprise people fume at the propaganda that originates from that region especially when they tout them as an economic model to follow though their success in social indicators have been impressive. The communists were always good at that and we can take inspiration from their centralized re-engineering of society to emancipate women but we've all also seen first hand what the communists did in Bengal and what their power vaccuum produced in the TMC. What was once the cultural capital of the sub-continent now reduced to being one of its armpits.What Bengal has suffered from is Bhodrolok culture. Commies didn't do enough to eradicate it.