Indian Hard-Liner Narendra Modi Leads in Prime Minister Race

[Ken Burch]

24. The best time in Indian history was in the immediate post-1948 period.

That was a time when Hindus treated Muslims generally as equals, and the values were secular and social-democratic.

Religious nationalism always ends up turning creating a reactionary society. Why on earth would you want India to become less inclusive, less tolerant and more right-wing? How does that help most people? It doesn't help the vast majority of Hindus who are, like most people in India, desperately poor.

And you are wrong...there were many pro-Hitler Hindu supremacists in the 1930's...Gandhi spoke out against them as passionately as he did against the British. And it was Hindu supremacists of the pro-Hitler type that murdered Gandhi(or is that what you call "getting assertive&quot .

It's fascist to treat Indian Muslims as though they have to be "put in their place". And frankly, there's little difference between your rhetoric about Indian Muslims and Hitler's rhetoric about those he wanted to exterminate.\

India's problems are based in the unjustified perpetuation of the caste system and the massively unequal distribution of wealth that creates. Nodi will never do anything about either of those things, because he's pro-caste and anti-social justice.