Jammu & Kashmir live updates: GOI remove all provisions of Article 370

Supreme Court is not beyond the idea of India. They already touched a raw nerve with Sabrimala case. They will not dare to touch article 370.

370 case is not a Corruption case

Let SC try out its strength

Crores of people - 28 crore people - voted for Modi

And one more thing

Even in Ram Mandir case , Govt will bring a law to overturn their judgement IF Hindus are not happy
Idea of India is according to Constitution. The Supreme Court is the custodian. They will intervene if necessary, be its sabarimala or Kashmir.

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy
 
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T C A S Raghavan (@tca_tca) Tweeted:
The real problem with #370 was that majoritarianism was fine in Kashmir but not in the rest of India. How could this nonsense exist in the Constitution for 70 years? How could such a promise even have been made? ( )


T C A S Raghavan (@tca_tca) Tweeted:
1964. All Congress MPs insisted that 370 had to go. T C A S Raghavan on Twitter ( )



T C A S Raghavan (@tca_tca) Tweeted:
Can someone please explain how this government gets everything except it’s economic policies right? #370 #Balakot #Elections #TripleTalaq #Doklam @dravirmani @sonaliranade @Barugaru1 @TheJaggi @swapan55 @SandipGhose ( )
 
What you say is correct, although I would not generalize and club the entire middle class as uneducated on matters of democracy. Intellectual deficit is quite pronuned among millenials. It's a generation that lacks civic awareness, intellectually malnourished because they have probably never read a book other than what is required to pass the engineering college, unable to hold a intelligent conversation for more than 15 minutes without suffering a neurotic fit..... Again I might be grossly generalizing them, but they seem to have an attention span which is the length of the longest Facebook post and have an intellectual base which is a compendium of stuff aggradized from various WhatsApp groups.

Well, the preceding generations with all their intellectual ability combined did bankrupt our nation and reserves to an extent that until caught between a wall and a hard place didn't even bother to come out of their socialist utopia dream. Till the prospect of having a plate full of food for themselves started to vanish, poverty was a topic relegated to dinner table conversations, of pity... not ever having any intent or idea to combat the malaise.

We are engineers, and the entirety of modern civilization rests on our work and shoulders. Engineering and hard sciences gives us the ability to think logically and not fall prey to eloquent words of brainwashing carefully placed in libraries. We make the world work and we understand how the world works. The entire credibility of Universities is based on their triumph in Hard sciences and engineering, where as the pseudonym parasitic "Social Sciences" have sneakily usurped the same. No Book worm has ever created history while sitting in library, he has never been a hero to his people. Its a pity, what we call as "social sciences" (and they dare suffix science to their voodoo) was correctly relegated to streets debates and the entertainment of despotic rulers/kings and their courtesans have found their way into Universities.

The Intellectual compendium, and contribution of all generations of such as the above species COMBINED has lesser value than the few line of codes of "instruction set architecture" that makes the very device, on which you typed your words, function.
 
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What you say is correct, although I would not generalize and club the entire middle class as uneducated on matters of democracy. Intellectual deficit is quite pronuned among millenials. It's a generation that lacks civic awareness, intellectually malnourished because they have probably never read a book other than what is required to pass the engineering college, unable to hold a intelligent conversation for more than 15 minutes without suffering a neurotic fit..... Again I might be grossly generalizing them, but they seem to have an attention span which is the length of the longest Facebook post and have an intellectual base which is a compendium of stuff aggradized from various WhatsApp groups.
I would not put it on a generation. Previous generation did not have luxury of time or resource to ponder on these issues. They were struggling to survive. Thus the well off leftist 'intellectuals' drove the narrative. They almost made majority feel bad for being one.

Today, Middle class is large and literate. The cheap internet became a catalyst. They are free of so many limitations which their parents faced. They recognise the 'liberal' hypocrisy and they are not afraid to call it. They are aspirational and demand change. I think you can make a parallel to American post war baby boomers and the later hippie (counterculture) generation here.

Basically, They are read but not the same things what previous generation read. And, its ok to be biased. Because 'liberal' driven reading was also biased. Maybe we will reach an equilibrium!.
 
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Idea of India is according to Constitution. The Supreme Court is the custodian. They will intervene if necessary, be its sabarimala or Kashmir.

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy
Kashmir issue and sabarimala issue are not
similar.. If the supreme court overturns the presidential order, and the J and K reorganization bill, it only means that the constitution is getting too fossilised to accommodate a changing India.. The government would act to rectify this...
 
ignoring my off topic rant on millenials, please let me know which part of my take on the constitution was wrong. If you don't like such opinions on this forum, kindly let me know and I'll make myself scarce. Won't be the first time though.
I have mentioned in previous posts times where you were wrongly/inaccurately attributing something to constitution. In this reply too you mentioned 'Right to question on any and every matter' as a right given by Constitution however this is very inaccurate.

Article 19(1)(a) says Every citizen has right to speech and freedom of expression. This is interpreted by SC as without information you cannot express yourself therefore 'Right to information' is a fundamental right, which became the basis of RTI ACT 2005.

Now When you read more Article 19 (2) -

(2) Nothing in sub clause (a) of clause ( 1 ) shall affect the operation of any existing law, or prevent the State from making any law, in so far as such law imposes reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub clause in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence.
Which provides the grounds where freedom of expression and RTI derived from it are subject to restrictions and you can not ask everything on every matter from government, that's not the right. Privileged information, confidential information and information detrimental to national security and law and order can not be obtained even when RTI is fundamental right.

And you don't need to be so touchy expressing your opinion when you think you are right. I get lot of angry people here when I criticize policy of Modiji, most of them making personal comments and not on topic, part of life, don't get demotivated by it.

So, you do not have a convincing answer. 'Nothing is absolute' is not the answer to every hard question. It cannot be the justification to put curfew and blackout on millions of population.
I replied you point by point and your question is not a hard question, it's rhetoric.

There are 6 clauses in Article 19 which can be base to your question. Clause 2, clause 3, clause 4 and clause 5 hold answer to your question you have to read them in consonance with Clause 1 to get full picture otherwise you will keep repeating same mistake.


What you and @S.A.T.A are talking about are features of democracy and liberal principles and calling them rights granted by Constitution or GoI but it's not. Indian Constitution is very flexible and very pragmatic to ensure a nation of 1.25 billion works pragmatically and not get dragged into law suits of idealism.
 
Why there is a need to sell 20% to Arabs?
Not 100% sure but (maybe) Saudi will supply cheap(er) oil which will help to undercut other chemical companies internationally.
Saudi will get a guaranteed long term buyer, in whose success they have a stake, that buys oil in huge quantity even when global demand falls due to phasing out of petrol/diesel vehicles and Motabhai Ambani gets long term access to cheap oil.

Win-win.

Iran might get a bit nervous as this would mean increased Saudi influence in India and vice-versa.But they are welcome to invest too.

Earlier the argument for not stopping Iranian oil imports was that Jamnagar refinery is built to specifically handle "sweet" Iranian crude.Now Saudis will use some of this $75 billion to modify the refinery to better use Saudi crude instead. Saudis have taken this refinery away from Iran and some of Iran's ability to escape sanctions.
 
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