If the Delhi Police starts to read each of Zubair’s Hinduphobic tweets they could well be writing an encyclopaedia of hate tweets. The guy and his partner on the fact-check portal have been getting away with a lot of stuff they put out because they are/were defended by the very powerful left-liberal ecosystem.
Zubair also deliberately and strategically edited and flogged Nupur Sharma’s outburst on TV on the prophet. To anyone with two eyes, two ears, a nose and a mouth who was watching Nupur on TV that day it was obvious she was being baited and she walked right into the trap set. It was so perfectly stage-managed, I’m surprised she didn’t see it. I guess that’s the difference between the brashness of youth and the experience of a seasoned debater.
But Zubair flogged only her comment and edited the other half. If you call yourself a fact checker then do your job well. Don’t get selective. But why blame him alone when this govt too has been unclear in its approach to hate speech, hinduphobic tweets and FB posts? Until now.
Now let’s come to the fulcrum of this thread. Ever since Modi became PM there is this desperate urge to belittle India at every fora. Right from then through the last two years the left-liberal ecosystem has lived under just one dictum ‘IF IT’S MODI’S DECISION IT MUST BE TERRIBLE’’
The problem is my left-liberal friends who 📞 me occasionally to crib about my tweets seem to believe that secularism gives them the right to speak against all religions and its deities, but one. You can hurt religious sentiments of all communities except one. Doesn’t work that way guys.
The funny thing is that left liberals who didn’t tweet even one word against the arrest of Marathi actor Ketaki Chitale and pharmacy student Nikhil Bhamre for something they didn’t even write, or condemn calls to behead Nupur Sharma, are today calling Zubair’s arrest a travesty of justice and politics of hate. Hypocrisy overload, what?
The global economy is in tatters and India is a part of it. In such circumstances one would have expected a more unified country but what we have is a fractured, disunited nation. Never have I seen such a pathetic, despicable bunch as the current opposition and their stooges in the media who’re looking for every opportunity to stick a knife into the government.
30 years ago, Modi wouldn’t have lasted two years, leave alone twenty, because the ecosystem would have destroyed him. It has tried very hard since 2002 and has failed because of a vibrant judiciary. And thank heavens for social media too. The world is slowly and painfully picking itself up off the floor after being knocked out by a virus. And it’s not over yet. India is no different.
I’ve lived in this country long enough and been a journalist for half of that to see Opposition of all hues, right from the 1970s. So I think I know what I’m talking about. And Rahul Gandhi has to take the blame for ALL of it. Accept it, the others take their cue from him.
Going abroad and stage-managing PR shows where he and his cronies can tear into the govt? It may win you brownie points but it won’t make you popular here because a lot of Indians, at least the ones with self respect and dignity, don’t appreciate the country being maligned and mocked abroad, even if they oppose the govt.
After the SC verdict it is going to take a lot to stop him from winning again, because the opposition’s quiver of arrows is empty. If all they can put up against Narendra Modi is the likes of Mamata, Rahul and Pawar, a third term looks a certainty.
Been There Done That 
Thathaasthu.