{"id":24353,"date":"2017-07-04T06:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T11:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24353"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:04:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T11:04:43","slug":"24353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24353","title":{"rendered":"India: Cash is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India: Cash is Back <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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But the Crisis has Deepened and has Become More Entrenched (Part XIV)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nobody for President<\/strong><\/p>\n

On 17th<\/sup> July 2017, India will elect a new President through a vote of the elected representatives. The two real choices are between Ram Nath Kovind and Meira Kumar. Afraid of looking completely ignorant, I asked a few people who Kovind is. No-one knew of him and people only vaguely remembered Ms. Kumar.<\/p>\n

\"\"Adults and juveniles have been arrested in different parts of India for celebrating Pakistan\u2019s victory over India in a recently held cricket match. They have been charged with sedition, a charge that has serious legal ramifications and can potentially send these people to prison for life. With the British gone for 70 years, India\u2019s laws and institutions have lost all mooring to their rational anchors.\u00a0Photo credit: Amnesty India<\/p>\n

India will get a complete nobody as its next President. Both candidates are from the Indian province of Bihar. If it were a country, Bihar with its 119 million inhabitants would be the 12th<\/sup>\u00a0 most populated in the world. With a GDP of USD 420 per capita, it would also be among the world\u2019s ten poorest countries.<\/p>\n

\"\"A scene from a slum in Patna, Bihar\u2019s capital.\u00a0Photo credit: Yuri Birukov<\/p>\n

Kovind is from the \u201clower caste\u201d and is the choice of the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who would like to make up for recent atrocities against the \u201clower caste\u201d. While he is a nobody with hardly any public credentials and a yes-man to the system, Kovind is sympathetic to the cause of Hindu fanatics and has their support.<\/p>\n

Why pull a passionate street fighter and rabble-rouser out of the street and place him in a position where he might compete with Modi for visibility?<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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