“Opinion | Debunking Dhruv Rathee’s False Narrative of ‘Dictatorship’ in India”, News 18, April 13, 2024:
“Dhruv Rathee’s two recent videos on the supposed “dictatorship” in India have gone viral on YouTube. Together, they have gathered over 40 million views. Most of those people will never be able to take him on with the right questions. How can you say that India is a dictatorship? To be fair, Dhruv Rathee never said that. He only said that India is on the way to becoming one.
But what does that even mean? If you leave Delhi and drive one mile out west, you are technically somewhere on the way to London. So unless you let us compare India’s democracy to other countries, you have told us nothing on whether India is becoming a dictatorship. So let’s compare our democracy to Germany.
Why Germany? For one, Dhruv Rathee is based there and must know something about the country. His 17 million strong base of YouTube subscribers, mostly Indians, deserve to know as well. In any case, Germany gets excellent ratings from the supposed international experts on press freedom and democracy. Also, the other day, the German government began commenting on our internal affairs, totally uninvited. So let’s turn it around……”
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