The annual summit of the Group of 20 economies is the largest gathering of world leaders ever in New Delhi, with attendees including President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and others.
They will be greeted by some of the cleanest streets New Delhi has seen, ornamented by hundreds of thousands of lush flowers potted on freshly painted pavements. What they will not see are the hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced, or the slums that have been flattened or obscured by temporary fences bearing the G20 summit’s logo and photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi’s government hopes the beautification project will help showcase the best of what the world’s most populous country has to offer, further cementing its position on the global stage.
Anything that might disrupt that effort is unwelcome.
- downpunxx ( @downpunxx@kbin.social ) 19•10 months ago
As is the custom prior to all G20’s that have ever been held anywhere, bulldoze the homeless and get them out of the way, must make it looks spiffy don’t ya know
No one is speaking of stray dogs… They’ve been rounded up and dumped into a closed area with no proper food, water or shelter.
They’re removing everything that makes the country ‘look’ poor. And also making shit shittier in the process.
Woah, woah, woah. Yes, the G20 is basically the Legion of Doom (if it was made entirely of Lex Luthor clones), but they usually at least try to slap a smiley face on their atrocities. Bulldozing homes is a little too on the nose, isn’t it, Modi?
Authorities say they have also deployed several dozen people to mimic the sounds made by langurs so that the rhesus monkeys will be further convinced the cardboard animals are real.
So… they hired people to walk around making langur noises? I want a detailed story specifically about this job. First, though, I need to hit Wikipedia and find out what a langur is.
Edit: Oh, it’s this.
I’m curious if this actually works.
So the best they have to offer is “fake”. Is that the message?
Afaik, other host countries have also done similarly when there is an important world gathering and even Olympics?
Yes?
So the press call out India, but not other countries.
No. Just one recent example would be how Brazil got a lot of negative press coverage for similar activities during the Rio Olympics.
I’m saying I don’t see it criticized much or any when other who does it and it’s telling. I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding you.
I don’t think so? I’m not sure, but i do think there was something similiar the last G20? Or the one prior? Did i mix it up with Arabias slavery for olympics?
It’s so sad only certain nations get called out, and more than a bit suspicious, isn’t it?
You sound removed and seem to be living under a rock or just awfully biased
It’s quite possible i haven’t seen them. I don’t use news aggregators and this is my only social media, so unless it’s what bothers locals in a small area, or i see it here, I really don’t know. Thanks for the reminder.
I cant say I know what you are talking about. This kind of stuff gets called out all the time.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An army of government workers is rounding up stray dogs, scaring away hungry monkeys — and evicting some of New Delhi’s poorest residents by bulldozing their dwellings.
The annual summit of the Group of 20 economies is the largest gathering of world leaders ever in New Delhi, with attendees including President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and others.
What they will not see are the hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced, or the slums that have been flattened or obscured by temporary fences bearing the G20 summit’s logo and photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
From his designated spot in Connaught Place, a business district in the heart of New Delhi, motorcades could be seen passing by every few minutes this week as droves of arriving diplomats headed to nearby luxury hotels.
Authorities say they have also deployed several dozen people to mimic the sounds made by langurs so that the rhesus monkeys will be further convinced the cardboard animals are real.
According to a July report by Concerned Citizens Collective, a rights group, almost 300,000 street food vendors, cigarette sellers, shoe polishers and others have been displaced from neighborhoods where the visiting diplomats might see them.
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“White Westerners when people of color actually want to be a part of the world”
I expected better from NBC, not this racist garbage that reeks of Trumpism
What? No way!