Calculi's Politics Blog

Suppressed blogger of our world

Part of a project of GlobalVoices Advocacy, this cartographic survey gives simple statistics on suppressed online voices around the world. It’s no surprise that China tops the number, but no surprise either, that recent middle-east uprising is increase in number of such bloggers. But bigger surprise to find any such suppressed bloggers in western open societies. The website disclosing these data has interactive feature to look for them separately.

Source: Threatened Voices | Tracking suppression of online free speech.

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Indian PM says India is not a scam-driven country

India‘s academic and soft-spoken leader decided that lofty abandon was no longer a sustainable tactic. Singh, a rare and reluctant speaker, sat for an hour-long grilling by India’sleading television editors, an interrogation carried live nationwide.

Singh’s message was twofold: that the government was “dead serious” about rooting out corruption and that the media, which has relentlessly exposed corruption in his coalition government over the past six months, should stop putting the country down.

Response from the main opposition party:

“Nobody for a moment has suggested that he is guilty of any personal misdemeanor,” said the BJP’s Arun Jaitley. “But his culpability is lack of political leadership, lack of assertion and lack of courage to stop corruption when it was taking place.”

I liked the response. Indian democracy has always been dynamic, but it’s matured, too.

Source: Singh says hes no lame duck, and India is not a scam-driven country.

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Letter from my old blog:
Please don’t hurt the majority!

There may be many reasons which causes communal violence, mostly due to political interest, but sometimes politicians itself are influenced by another root-reason or sometimes they use at least this reason to cause such violence. This root-reason is imbalance of treatment to majority and minority. This division can be of any sort, based on religion, classes, ideologies, etc. Here one can introduce another division, take notice, which is no way a social division, but it is of being conservative and liberal. Well, they can be found in majority as well as in minority. Continue reading…

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