Salvatore Babones Punctures 'Anti-India' Narrative By Intellectuals With Facts, Figures & Reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsaCnXGGsEI
Dr Salvatore Babones, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Sydney, spoke exclusively with India Today's Shiv Aroor on his show 5ive Live. He exposed intellectuals who are romanticising with poor India.
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International think tanks ranking countries based on their democratic strengths or weaknesses are not biased against India but are a result of “anti-Indian" sources from intellectual class, said Sociologist Dr Salvatore Babones on Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pI9aIed-rM The associate professor at the University of Sydney who came to limelight recently with his article ‘Indian Democracy at 75: Who are the Barbarians at the Gate?’ had argued that negative ratings of Indian democracy published by three major rating organisations are disproportionate to the actual evidence provided to support.
Dr Salvatore Babones, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Sydney, also said India has problems “but the problem is” that activists, journalists and intellectuals “allow internationally to colour the overall evaluation of this system”. As anchor Rajdeep Sardesai tried to counter him saying that intellectuals are “at least raising a few red flags”, Babones asked if their criticism is “tied to the BJP government or will it continue inevitably to any other government who will come to power”.
As the comments went viral, Babones was criticised by several social media handles, who sought to know the relevance of such remarks by a western voice
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/08/indian-democracy-at-75-who-are-the-barbarians-at-the-gate/ There is no such thing as an ‘objective’ democracy ranking, and indeed concepts like democracy and freedom admit of many different meanings. The specific numerical rankings assigned to India by each of the organisations that rate it should thus be taken with something of a grain of salt. But in publishing sensational downgradings of the world’s largest democracy, these organisations are aware that their ratings will be widely reported—and subjected to intense scrutiny.