Inappropriate indignation.

"A visible trend in recent years has been the decline of India's scores and rankings on a number of global indices," raged Sanjeev Sanyal, Member of Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister (EAC-PM) and Aakanksha Arora, Deputy Director of EAC-PM. The Indian response so far has been to ignore these perception indices, but the problem is" "these indices are inputs into the World Bank's World Governance Indicators (WGI) that, in turn, have approximately 20% weightage in sovereign ratings." "India's score for political culture declined from 6.25 to 5.0, and that for civil liberties from 9.41 to 6.18," and "the Freedom of Expression sub-index from 0.881 to 0.598". The authors think these agencies are biased. Are they? "According to the India Press Freedom Report 2021 released by Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) in February this year, at least six journalists were killed, and 108 journalists and 13 media houses were targeted in the country in 2021 alone." The Quint. "Of the total 121 targeted, at least 34 faced attacks from political parties," and "The highest number of journalists targeted (25) was in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir." "Also in 2021, at least 24 were physically attacked," and "Seventeen of the 24 were thrashed by the police, with J&K reporting the highest number of police beatings." On 4 December 2021, "Union Home Minister Amit Shah...said Kashmir was witnessing peace, good business investment and influx of tourists post the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019." In Kashmir, "Civilians lose their lives in encounters (with security forces) and, instead of justice, they are made to beg for the remains of their loved ones," wrote Mehbooba Mufti. Rajdeep Sardesai refers to three videos on social media. On 30 October 2022, a pedestrian bridge over the Machchhu River in the city of Morbi in Gujarat, India, collapsed killing at least 135 people and injuring 180 others. wikipedia. A video showed workmen hastily painting a rundown hospital in Morbi before the prime minister's visit. TOI. "But then, it is election season in Gujarat." Another video showed  VVIPs, Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and ministers attending to Gurmeet Ram Rahim who was released on parole for 40 days, conveniently in time for Haryana by-election and Himachal assembly polls, while a third video showed "11 men convicted of rape and murder in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case being feted and garlanded by some Vishwa Hindu Parishad members in Gujarat after their life sentence was remitted", wrote Sardesai. "Collectively, these videos are a pointer to a deeper moral and political crises that engulfs are democratic set-up. First, there is a visible lack of accountability amongst those in authority." CNN reported on homes of protesters being demolished in UP and Delhi without any legal process. Babies are to be forced to obtain Aadhaar card which will be updated at the age of 5 years with biometric details. DNA. Which other country brands its children as crominals with identity numbers? "The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022, empowers police or prison officers" to collect "fingerprints, photographs, iris and retina scan, biological samples and their analysis and behavioral attributes" from anyone arrested for an offence. PRS. We, the people, are terrified of the draconian police state. Except for government stooges perhaps.