Miss the old forum. - Page 2

Originally posted by: Veni-Vidi-Vici

Don't know about forum.. But India got a BJP government..

What were the repercussions on this forum? I was more curious about that. There must be a reason BJP government made it to this topic?

Originally posted by: Mo0nLighting

What were the repercussions on this forum? I was more curious about that. There must be a reason BJP government made it to this topic?

I am also trying to figure out.. I was busy in Sony shows ka forum back then, so don't know what exactly happened here

Originally posted by: heartbleed

Hadia 🤗

Sorry but I’m not able to recognise you. What was your previous UN?😳

Originally posted by: Veni-Vidi-Vici

2014 merely reinforced what we are. There were ample incidents of rabid communalism even before it. What were the violence during partition examples of ? There were so many massacres in the whole of India and not just in the areas being partitioned.. the terrorism in Punjab?..the anti sikh riots... massacres in the north east ? A lot of things happened in India even before Modi..even before British rule maybe... while foreign invasions were bad..even the interiors of India weren't idyllic..marauding armies looted, killed and desecrated places of worship...

Sufi and bhakti saints did make people pious but that didn't stop dacoity, thuggery (thugs were very very violent) ..caste based violence was very much rife..profiteering and black marketing when people are starving was definitely a part of our glorious culture even before the British entered..

Now what about the world? ISIS, al Qaeda, boko haram are violent religious groups...they have killed several of the people who at least on the surface seemed their own... killing based on religion is wrong but non-religious extremist groups haven't fared any better

Ltte was formed on ethnic lines..both Hindus and Christians were part of the top rung..they were ruthless (and so were the Sinhala far right groups)

Some of the civil wars in Africa were also due to ethnic divide

Pol pot was a communist ...his regime caused 1.5 million Cambodians to die..his killing fields were notorious for the deaths they caused

Shining path of Peru was also communist..it was brutal too

Leftist regimes in south and central America were very brutal

Mao's famine was also disastrous

Left wing extremism in India is also very brutal

The world wars, which happened due to a multitude of reasons including religious factors, does show how brutal people are...

There were crusades, religious persecution..burning people at stake in Europe too..

The drug cartels of Latin america have killed so many law abiding citizens...along with members of rival gangs

Hatred among people is nothing new...The new regime in India just made people on extreme ends of the divide vocal...the number of decent folks is the same as before..

We the humans are a very kameena species..definitely not as civilized as we think..if so we wouldn't see people coming to loot victims of accidents..a lot of people loot victims and don't even bother calling an ambulance...a lot of people do selfless service during natural calamities, but even there for every selfless person, there is an equivalent jerk...

These examples are not meant to tell that we should resign to the situation and do nothing...a part of this rant is also because some elders blame mobile and internet for everything...

We are a violent specie and the peaceful and logical sections among us must gain the upper hand..I feel that neither right wing or left wing is the panacea- centrist is the way to go

P.S- this isn't directed at any member..it is more of my cynicism about the human race in general which keeps finding new excuses to kill one another

Couldn’t have said it better! 👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽

Unfortunately a lot of supporters of certain parties in India make it sound like the current government is responsible for all communal sentiment and communal riots, hate crime etc only started happening under this government...

When in reality so much worse stuff (1975 emergency, anti-Sikh riots, problems in the North-East, the whole Kashmir situation, I could go on... 😒) happened under their supposedly super secular and democratic government 😷

And that is just India... many other countries that these supporters of certain parties idolise have had much worse stuff go on in the past and present! And these people who make the biggest deal out of relatively small things in India have NOTHING to say about the legally sanctioned brutal treatment minorities receive in other countries...

Like you said, unfortunately bad people exist everywhere and always have done 🤷🏽‍♀️

And in the grand scheme of things the current ruling party hasn’t done anything all that terrible for the country, in fact they have done a lot of good so far!

I don’t think politics affected the forum at all

But ups and downs of Bollywood did

Originally posted by: BhataktiJawani

Sorry but I’m not able to recognise you. What was your previous UN?😳

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Originally posted by: Mo0nLighting

What were the repercussions on this forum? I was more curious about that. There must be a reason BJP government made it to this topic?

I was a silent reader mostly but it used to be mostly SRK-Bhai fanwars along with SRK/RK-DP fanwars before but India/Pakistan arguments spiked up around 2016 ish and now this has become political forum since BW has gone the drain .

Same rudaali every 3-4 months.

Originally posted by: Veni-Vidi-Vici

I am also trying to figure out.. I was busy in Sony shows ka forum back then, so don't know what exactly happened here

Which shows ? BALH ? Or that Poonam Dhillon wala ?

Originally posted by: Anjalika01

Couldn’t have said it better! 👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽

Unfortunately a lot of supporters of certain parties in India make it sound like the current government is responsible for all communal sentiment and communal riots, hate crime etc only started happening under this government...

When in reality so much worse stuff (1975 emergency, anti-Sikh riots, problems in the North-East, the whole Kashmir situation, I could go on... 😒) happened under their supposedly super secular and democratic government 😷

And that is just India... many other countries that these supporters of certain parties idolise have had much worse stuff go on in the past and present!

Like you said, unfortunately bad people exist everywhere and always have done 🤷🏽‍♀️

And in the grand scheme of things the current ruling party hasn’t done anything all that terrible for the country, in fact they have done a lot of good so far!

Really really not true. I'm all for being objective and critiquing all sides equally but we are witnessing a never seen before polarization and crackdown of dissent.

Before this I never even paid attention to who or what my favourite actor's religion or political beliefs were. It really didnt matter. And now that's all we talk about. On this forum, just this week alone I saw people calling srk and the Khans terrorists. And this is not a lone opinion- it has been carefully nurtured by the attack dogs of the power centre - the IT cell.

Not denying that all govts have played their part in the past but this is a crucial and very dangerous moment we are witnessing right now. Maybe other countries have it worse but why should it stop us from calling out things in our own country and reforming things?