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Will India have a dictator?

No, let me explain why! This is what most YouTubers and political commentators either get wrong or choose to ignore to further their agendas. But, in my humble opinion India is too diverse (read divided) culturally, geographically and racially. As people we would never be okay with any one person to have the power to rule over us all. A gujarathi dictator will be rejected by the people of UP, A Sikh dictator will be rejected by the southern states, A Jatt dictator, well, he will be rejected by everyone :) For a dictatorship to be successful you need a leader who is supported by an executive, legislative and judicial machinery. Like how hitler replaced all executive and judicial positions by nazi party members. Like how Shia dictator or head of state appoint Shia executive and military leaders and slowly marginalise the other community. For our luck we are so diverse as country that a dictator from Tamilnadu will not have the support of all Tamilians. He will be judged on his religion, caste and region he hails from. A Tamil Brahmin has to appease to get the support of non Brahmins in a simple local election. We will survive as democracy for this reason. Whether it’s good or bad is a different discussion. But for what it’s worth our diversity inherently requires a leadership which runs on consensus. Hence, in our political history we have always seen people with dictatorial tendencies being heavily humbled by our fractured mandates, whether it was Indira Gandhi or Narendra Modi.

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Internal Email: Google Employees arrested and fired for protests

Googlers, You may have seen reports of protests at some of our offices yesterday. Unfortunately, a number of employees brought the event into our buildings in New York and Sunnyvale. They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers. Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened. We placed employees involved under investigation and cut their access to our systems. Those who refused to leave were arrested by law enforcement and removed from our offices. Following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed. Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it. It clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to — including our Code of Conduct and Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Standards of Conduct, and Workplace Concerns. We are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and communicate in our workplace. The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination. You should expect to hear more from leaders about standards of behavior and discourse in the workplace. Chris

Google terminated 28 employees Wednesday, according to an internal memo viewed by CNBC, after a series of protests against Project Nimbus.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/18/google-terminates-28-employees-after-series-of-protests-read-the-memo.html

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