The Politics of Unity

Wednesday 17th February 2021 05:54 EST
 

So many Indian celebrities touched me, so to speak, when they came out to speak up for India. To repulse outside maligners such as Rihanna.

As an investor, I know LVMH (Luis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) shut down Rihanna's brand, and the LVMH share price hit an all-time high as they ditched the expensive brand mistake, which was a cost drag on profits. It seems it is not only the people of India who do not want Rihanna.

You know who I mean by Rihanna? You probably hum her songs Masi all the time, you know like this one, "Come here rude boy/Boy can you get it up/Come here rude boy/Boy is you big enough/Take it, take it Baby,/Baby take it, take it/Love me, love me”

Yes, she will not be troubling the Nobel Committee for Literature, or Economics for that matter.

But wait, the title of my piece is about unification. As the Indian influencers such as Amitabh Bachchaan said. They know India's special history - proof nowhere else copied in the world that so many large diverse, often diametrically opposed faiths can co-exist the large part in harmony.

No union is perfect - not the great United States or the United Kingdom. And not India. None is perfect.

According to Statista, "The history of agriculture in India dates back to the Indus Valley civilization era and even before that in some parts of southern India. The agriculture sector is one of the most important industries in the Indian economy, which means it is also a huge employer. Approximately 60 percent of the Indian population works in the industry, contributing about 18 percent to India's GDP. This share decreases gradually with each year, with development in other areas of the country's economy."

Consider that if agriculture is not economically more robust, then India is weaker. Consider Reliance already gets 80% of fruit and veg directly from farmers anyway.

Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy. Remember when Unions ruled the UK, and the 3 day week? Sorry, you cannot have the largest ever Democratic mandate, based on a manifesto to reform agriculture, stopped by 0.001% or so of the population.

As for those with agendas - more farmers are Hindu - and anything to harm farmers would harm India as a nation - so much for Hindu Nationalists.

There has never been an economic reform which all political parties have agreed to in any democracy - not in the UK or the US or India. Unanimity is not what is the measure.

There are those who think they are more important than everyone else. It doesn't work like that. Look at the Republicans in America.

The poll tax riots were at least when people were going to be taxed more. But simply trying to give people more money is not a reason to protest. And in case you're wondering - happy people don't protest, which is why all the other farmers don't. The French farmers are protesting again.

That's fine. In every democracy, the opposition opposes every single reform. In the UK a bunch of people don't want to take the vaccine -sometimes fake news and fear override science. That's the norm too.


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