by Promod Puri
As per his motives based on flawed knowledge and limited perception of Hinduism, a transformation of India’s democracy is taking place under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s consent and guidance.
Moving with an accelerated pace towards bigoted and sectarian fascism, the transformation camouflages the autocratic rule within the corrupted and ineffective institutions of judiciary, media, and election commission, along with a symbolic presence of disarrayed Opposition.
The political arrangement crafted by the man from Gandhi’s soil looks democratic from the outside but is dictatorial and autocratic from the inside.
The uniqueness of this fabricated democratic structure lies in the installation of controlled windows of dissent. These regulated vents offer the nation’s citizens and the opposition to let off their bits and pieces of criticism, anger, or dissent.
In political terminology, these openings are called Overton Windows.
Well-known American thinker, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky aptly describes the Overton Windows as follows:
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
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