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As cops are being beaten up and trains and buses burnt by communal mobs, an info war has been unleashed against Modi’s government to twist the CAA and spin large-scale violence and bigotry as spontaneous, progressive resistance.
This protest movement has many fathers, the most useful being the one that should disown it the quickest: Liberals.

It is through them that a massive information war against India’s new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) –– which offers shelter to persecuted Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsis from Islamic Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh –– is being carried out.

From film personalities like Farhan Akhtar and Sushant Rajput to selectively secular activists and journalists, self-proclaimed liberals are circulating lies from very dubious sources about the CAA and the proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The same global breed pander to Islamists in the name of multiculturalism in Europe, fight for an unbridled refugee movement, and facilitate demographic and cultural takeovers across the continent.

Circulation of fakes
Bollywood film actor and director Akhtar recently tweeted a widely circulated online poster inviting people to join the CAA protests in Mumbai. The poster is credited to Stand With Kashmir, an online entity suspected to be run by the Pakistani spy agency ISI from the US and Canada. It has Facebook and Instagram pages with 50,000 and 15,000 followers respectively. It aggressively pushes Pakistan’s separatist and jihadi view of Kashmir, and this poster is a class showcase of that.
Akhtar failed to notice that India’s map in the poster did not show Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Akshai Chin (conflicted zones with Pakistan and China) as integral parts of the nation.

Then come the outright lies. The poster says the “law excludes Muslims.” But why should the majority Muslims of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, who have systemically persecuted their minorities to the point of near-extinction, be granted protection from religious persecution? Do you protect the sheep running away from a wolf by sheltering the wolf alongside its prey?

Sudden love for women and LGBTQIA
The propaganda document goes on to say, “When combined with the National Register for Citizens…many people will be inhumanly excluded due to being Muslims, transgender, atheists, adivasis, Dalits, women, landless… [sic]”

Amusingly, a nationwide NRC has not yet been drafted. And India’s citizenship has nothing to do with religion, gender, colour, caste, or being tribal or not.

The same Islamists were livid with the special status to Kashmir under Articles 370 and 35A –– which discriminated against women, LGBTQIA, and backward castes.

• A wave of bizarre onion-related violence has prompted many humorous memes under #OnionCrisis
• But as prices of the staple vegetable soar, this may be a sign of political turbulence ahead, within India’s borders and beyond

When Saravana Kumar sold 20 smartphones within two days in the tiny town of Pattukottai it was a major cause for celebration – and confirmation of a maverick marketing strategy.
Kumar would usually struggle to sell two handsets a day, but this time those smartphones were flying off the shelves and all because of the free gifts he was giving away with each model.
Those gifts were not headphones, or covers, or cash-back coupons, but something his low-key shop wouldn’t usually even keep in stock: a kilogram of onions.
As soon as Kumar had advertised he would be doling out the vegetables free of charge to smartphone buyers, business began to boom – making his STR Mobiles store the latest setting in a series of tragicomic episodes that have catapulted onions to the top of the economic agenda in India and beyond.
Onion prices in the country have soared tenfold this year, sparking a nationwide outcry, questions in parliament, a spate of bizarre onion-related crime and dozens of viral memes as the outraged citizens of the world’s second most populous nation find themselves unable to afford their staple food.
A kilogram of onions now costs one-third of an average Indian’s daily income, having hit a record high of 200 rupees (US$2.79) per kilogram after unseasonal downpours in key onion-growing states left crops damaged.
And that spells trouble for the leaders of a nation where such spikes have been enough to topple governments in the past.

Back in the Kumar household, there has been a foretaste of the public’s anger.
“My wife is quite upset with me that I was giving away onions for free when prices are rocketing. But it’s a marketing strategy for my small business venture and it paid off, ” says Kumar, adding that he plans to gift the leftover onions to his wife.
Whether or not that placates Mrs Kumar, the rest of the Indian public may well be less forgiving.
In recent days half a dozen onion-linked robberies, assaults, fist-fights and attacks on trucks carrying the vegetable have been reported across the country.
Politicians have been quick to spot an opportunity, with opposition parties rallying in the streets wearing onion garlands and offering onions as wedding gifts.
Such scenes are a political nightmare for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is already under fire for a lacklustre economic performance, and some critics suggest signs of panic are setting in.
A few state governments have started selling onions at a subsidised price while analysts believe the onion crisis was behind the Reserve Bank of India’s surprise move to hold rates steady last week.
There are even signs the crisis is having an impact internationally. India is the world’s second-largest onion producer and makes US$360 million annually by exporting its surplus, but in light of the price rises the government has moved to ban exports of the vegetable and is rushing to import from places like Turkey and Egypt.

One of five perpetrators of a notorious rape and murder in India has made a bizarre last-ditch effort to dodge death penalty, insisting that India’s poor air quality has already shortened his lifespan enough.
The absurd petition, written in rudimentary English, was recently submitted to the Supreme Court through the inmate’s lawyer.

“Everyone is aware of what is happening in [New Delhi] with regard to water and air. Life is going from short to [shorter], then why the death penalty?” asked the convict, Akshay Singh, adding that air in the city is “like a gas chamber” and “full of poison.”

And terrible grammar. This Petition should be rejected just for the abhorrent usage of English.

The inmate also cited Hindu religious texts, arguing that “people lived for thousands of years” previously – he did not specify when – and that average lifespans had steadily fallen. “When age is reducing, why [the] death penalty?” the convict reasoned.

The appeal is unlikely to be accepted by the court, having rejected all of Singh’s previous attempts to overturn his execution, granting only temporary delays to date.

Singh, along with four others, was convicted for the rape, torture and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student, attacked by the gang as she traveled on a New Delhi bus late one night in 2012. The victim, who came to be known by the nickname “Nirbhaya” (“fearless”), survived the initial assault, but succumbed to severe internal injuries some 12 days later. Her death sparked widespread outrage across India, culminating in mass demonstrations calling for the men’s execution, which even sparked clashes with riot police in New Delhi.

While anger among Indians persists seven years on from the heinous crime, the reaction to Singh’s outlandish appeal ranged from hatred to hilarity online, with netizens venting their rage at the killer – and critiquing his bad grammar.