Comments on: Orwellian leaders and big brothers https://groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers Journalism for Citizens Fri, 11 May 2007 17:06:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Jeremy https://groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-812 Fri, 11 May 2007 17:06:02 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-812 Well there’s no going anywhere without India I suppose. So better look up, than have those buggers frown down upon us?

]]> By: adharmishta https://groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-811 Fri, 11 May 2007 16:08:39 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-811 perceptions of irony aside, isn’t it worrying that our government is looking to India as its big brother? it’s protector and benefactor?
I wish we could hark back to the days when old Sir John scoffed at Nehru’s attempt to muscle him around at the NAM summit.

]]> By: Ameen https://groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-810 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:22:47 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-810 JustMal,

Reading you on other blogs I think you are not based in Sri Lanka, which is why you think that this government isn’t paranoid about control and centralisation. Your opinion may change if you were to live in Sri Lanka.

The irony, as I see it, is that we are looking at India as Big Brother, when it is for so many of its neighbours a huge headache and a pain in the nether regions (and known for its own Hindutva extremism and many rights violations). We are also looking at Mahinda as Big Brother – apt I think to describe the Stalinist mentality and regime that’s increasingly evident in Sri Lanka.

]]> By: JustMal https://groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-809 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:46:10 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-809 I don’t think this government is particularly big brother-esq than any other previous regime in Sri Lanka. It is being tough on terrorist supporters, but it’s not going about it any differently than any other country would.

]]> By: Che https://groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-808 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:36:41 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/02/17/orwellian-leaders-and-big-brothers/#comment-808 Precisely my sentiments seeing this hoarding as I do on my way to and from work.

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