跟读练习: ENGLISH SPEECH | AKASH BANERJEE: India’s Path (English Subtitles) - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Today we feature Akash Banerjee, an Indian journalist and political commentator, delivering a thought -provoking debate at the Oxford Union Society in 2024.
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He challenges the idea that India's future hinges on a single leader by examining economic figures historical context, and democratic standards.
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In this speech you'll learn key phrases, analyze persuasive techniques, and practice your listening skills to level up your English fluency.
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Thank you sir for that amazing electoral speech.
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It was almost as if I'm going to press a button right now and vote.
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and vote Modi out of power.
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It was very ironical that you spent what, I don't know, 25 minutes talking about the danger that India faces,
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and at the end of your speech you land up saying is Modi's aura is on the wane.
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If it's on the wane then what's the problem?
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Why are you so scared if it's on the wind?
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But the debate till now has progressed as a chat GPT research.
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One side coming and saying, "Oh, after 2014 everything is absolutely speak and span, India is shining.
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On the other side, after 2014, everything has gone down." That's the level that we have seen till now.
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I hope with Prashant, sir, the level goes up beyond this.
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But I hope that the opposition comes up with better arguments, because at this point of time, there is nothing but statistics.
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And as a school debater will tell you, that you don't rely your entire speech on just statistics.
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Because even a class 8 debater will tell you there are three kinds of lies: white lies, black lies, and statistics.
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So I'm going to stay away from overburdening this audience with just statistics.
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We're going to talk about India a little bit, and a little less about Modi.
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That seems to be an obsessive angle here.
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We are forgetting what is bigger.
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India. or Modi.
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So there are two basic points in this debate topic.
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Modi's India?
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We'll get to that in a bit. Where is India going?
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Is it going in the right direction or not?
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You have a very simple job: to prove to this house that it is going in the wrong direction.
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Not that it is making mistakes.
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Are you trying to tell me the Congress never made mistakes?
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Are you trying to tell me the CPM never made mistakes?
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What are we talking about here?
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You're counting down mistakes.
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Are we here to just count good things versus bad things?
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Let's go a little beyond that.
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India is bigger than that.
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You know, Look at England from India.
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Okay, I'm going to give you the Indian perspective.
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If you switch on broadcast and watch the headlines.
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What do you see?
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Oh, Brexit.
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Oh, Boris.
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Oh, cost of living.
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Oh, England is going down.
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It's It's a pretty gloomy picture. So I thought, really?
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Things are that bad?
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Are they going to start taxing us again?
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Theen guna lagaan?
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You know, you guys, you know, But it's not funny.
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You know, you guys took the Kohinoor.
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And now you're charging us how much?
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How much did I pay that day?
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Thirty - thirty -two pounds to watch and have a look at the Kohinoor and the other crown jewels and then?
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6 pounds for a fake koinur, I bought it actually.
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Anyways.
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But, But you know, When I was doing a little bit of research, I see the other side.
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And when I lived in London for the last one week, I saw a buzzing metropolis.
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I saw buildings going up.
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I didn't see a country in decline or collapse.
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And I also realized that people, average people, are driving around in Beamers and Mercs because, well, guess what?
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We might have beaten you guys in overall GDP, and trust me, it's a celebration point in India, Good, we should celebrate.
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But when it comes down to per capita, and that's the finer point, you guys are sitting at $45 ,000 and we are sitting at 2 ,300, we are competing with Bangladesh.
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So there is, of course, a problem.
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And I am just trying to tell you that let's go beyond this headline.
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And after 2014, this was good, this was bad, this was good, the debate can extend for the full night.
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- The first time we have been in the last year, we have been in the last year, and we have been in the last year.
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Now let's stretch our imagination and answer this question to me, sirs.
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At what point of time was India in the right direction?
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Which decade was India in the right direction?
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1950s? when everybody was talking about balkanization, this house would have debated.
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Is India going to become another Europe?
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Is there going to be Balkanization?
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1960s, if we were going to have this debate in this house, we would have said, is India going to starve?
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Because, well, there was...
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was famine all around.
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In the 70s, we would have said, has democracy finished in India?
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Because there was one lady called Indira Gandhi came and imposed emergency.
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Well, she was thrashed after that very soon, and reduced to the footnotes in history.
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Besides landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, we don't hear too much about Indira Gandhi.
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A lady at one point of time was India is Indira, Indira is India, something that we often sort of hear today.
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Then let's come to the 1980s when there was economic collapse, literally, Hindu rate of growth.
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Then the 90s when there was political upheaval and coalition governments falling.
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Then there was 2000s where there was terrorism all over the place.
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And yes, There is a problem of communal politics, I admit.
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I'm not going to shy away.
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I am going to admit to the fact that yes, there is a problem of communal politics.
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and that has been harvested by politicians.
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And that is what politicians do.
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They harvest issues.
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And maybe, In another 10 years, if I'm lucky enough to be invited again to this August house, we might be debating something on the environment because,
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well, we are sitting on a time bomb.
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56 of the most polluted cities in India.
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belong to, out of 100 belong to India.
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So first and foremost, let's change this mindset that we are in a wrong direction.
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Because we are not.
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There is never a right direction, a wrong direction.
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India is larger than one person trying to set the country in one direction.
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India has always stammered, stopped, hopped, jumped, but there is never a great leap.
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We are not China.
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We will take our time.
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It's an elephant, remember guys?
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It will take its own time.
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We are a behemoth.
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There are issues that we are facing, but we are still on the right track.
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And I am not going to sit here and count the numerous economic angles to this, how we are a bright spot, while the rest of the world is staring at recession.
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England barely missing recession, Germany getting into recession.
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And as a matter of fact, even the World Bank has been saying is that not only overall GDP, but per capita GDP, India is the largest.
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fastest growing large economy.
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So as far as the economy is concerned, there are issues, there is concern, but we are much better off than the rest of the world.
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So let's take the economy aside.
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Everybody is in a worse off state than us.
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Then, besides us having losses and having wins.
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Let's come to another point.
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which I find very interesting.
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We are upheld to this standard of democracy.
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I, on my channel, scream day in and day out that we need to be better.
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Agreed.
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But who am I competing with?
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Whose standard of democracy you want us to live up to?
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UK You guys had the Magna Carta in 1215, if I'm not wrong?
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And then King Charles I was hiding in Oxford, then he was dragged out and then beheaded in 16th century or whatever.
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You guys took centuries to get your democratic act right and even now, Well, let's not get into what's happening at this point of time.
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But I am just saying, look at 75, 80 years.
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Was England a good practicing democracy after Magna Carta, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, when?
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How much time did it take you?
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Let's take USA.
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1776 and then 70, 80, 90 years down the line, civil war ripped apart the nation.
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Everything had to start anew, and even then you had the Jim Crow's, etc. etc. I am not saying India is perfect.
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I am admitting to the Lots of flaws that India has at this point of time.
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What I'm trying to tell you is that a democracy will not leapfrog
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or one person can't hold back such a massive country that had been set on a path in 1947.
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And to say that one person can decide the destiny of this nation.
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is to do injustice to the country, called India.
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The...
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Sorry, over drinks.
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The point that is very, very important for us to understand is that One person may try,
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and we've had a dictator who tried, but failed.
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Allow me to elaborate on this point a little bit.
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I know this is a little counterintuitive, But let me explain.
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Thank you.
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If you see 2019 election results in India, Because today, the other issue that I have with this topic is Modi's India.
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And because right path or wrong path is going to be decided by Modi's India, let's try and analyze, is it really Modi's India?
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Why are we giving Modi such a lot of importance to decide that he controls the destiny of India?
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I don't agree with it.
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So what I'm trying to tell you is that India's path and destiny cannot be decided by Modi.
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Here's why.
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2019, BJP peaks.
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How much does it have?
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37, 38 % of the popular vote.
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It's a big thing, I agree.
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1989, post -1989, the biggest vote share, 303 seats, well done.
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But the fact of the matter still is that out of 10 voters, you only have four.
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you don't have the rest of the six.
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The rest of the six voted for somebody else.
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The problem is that the rest of the six can't get their act together.
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The CPM, the Congress, the Aam Admi party to which Prashant Bhushan belonged to earlier but understood the problems in the party.
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What gives?
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people in the BJP to say to any argument that you might make, "Ayega to modi hii." "Deshke Papa" I'm not saying this,
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spokesperson Samit Patra has said this.
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Supreme leader, these are words uttered by - a very senior spokesperson of the BJP.
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What gives them this confidence?
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The confidence that they have comes from a very, very fractured opposition that can't get its act together,
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that can't decide to work together some progress has been made.
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Now they are saying that they're going to have a meeting in Patna, I believe, and many of the opposition parties are coming together.
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Mind you, that if the opposition gets its act together, if they stop cutting each other's votes, then Modi, like Indira Gandhi,
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in another 5 to 10 years, can easily be reduced to the footnotes of history.
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Forget him changing the path of India.
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I absolutely believe that.
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The question is whether the Congress, whether the CPM, 61 seats in 2004, I wonder what happened after that.
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So there is of course a problem of the opposition not understanding social media, not understanding the younger generation, not understanding how hard work really happens,
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how Panna Pramukhs draw people to the voting booth.
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So there is a lot of work that the opposition needs to do, which does not happen.
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I'll end with just one simple point.
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A lot of people thought Trump is also going to change India.
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And as a matter of fact, Trump got, if I'm not wrong, 73 .6 million votes, the highest for a sitting US president ever.
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It just so happened.
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that Biden even got better than that.
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So there is always a threat to democracy.
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There are always people trying to change the direction of a country.
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It is, of course, the opposition, what the leaders of the opposition, what the alternative leadership does,
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that can save or at least stop this change of track that is being attempted.
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So the point is very simple.
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My point is very, very, very, very clear and I hope that I'm refuted on this.
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I hope that I'm corrected on this that A,
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the path that India has set on is too huge to be changed by one person.
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Karnataka is a very small example.
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I'm not even getting into the elections.
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If you want to take a quick look at the map of India and how many states does BJP actually rule, It'll be surprising for you.
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So it depends on how the leaderships work.
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The only reason why we are debating this, I believe, in this house,
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is because the opposition of India really failed and allowed one person to grab so much of mind space.
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That's all.
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And that can change within months, if not a few years.
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I'll end with A simple challenge.
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The opposition, I hope there's to two speakers still left, they just need to prove me one thing.
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It's not a question, and by the way, right or left, you know, right turn in court as you mentioned sir,
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I can also mention left turn that we have been for the last 70 years, when liberalization was not allowed and we starved ourselves.
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Had we liberalized much more, maybe our per capita income today would have been 20, $20 ,000 maybe.
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So we have been stuck at the left turn also.
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So it's not a question of right turn or the left turn.
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The question is, are we on the right path?
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Yes, there have been blockages, yes, communal politics has been exploited, just like you had exploitation of caste politics,
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just like you had exploitation of poverty politics, Garibi Hatau, which the Congress would remember very well,
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in the same way, communal politics and religious revivalism has been weaponized.
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I agree to that, I admit to that.
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The question is, can you, can you, sir, counter that and help us again, get back to a very fast Based on direction,
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have we meandered a little bit?
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I would agree.
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Have we not done the best that we could have?
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I absolutely agree.
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But are we on the wrong path?
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I am not getting that.
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Please let me know where is it that India has taken a U -turn or completely gone on a wrong path.
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That is what you need to prove to this house, which unfortunately hasn't been done till now.
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背景与上下文
在这段演讲中，我们聆听到印度记者和政治评论员阿卡什·巴内杰（Akash Banerjee）在2024年牛津联盟（Oxford Union Society）的辩论。他挑战了印度未来不应仅依赖单一领导人的观念，深入探讨经济数据、历史背景和民主标准。这样的讨论不仅展现了当今印度面临的挑战，也为学习者提供了实践英语口语的机会。通过这段演讲，学习者可以提升听力技能，分析说服技巧，以及掌握关键短语。
日常交流中常用的五个短语
- “印度更大于莫迪”：这个短语强调了国家与领导人之间的关系，提醒我们关注更大的背景。
- “你在说谎”：这句常见的表达在辩论中用于质疑对方的陈述，能够增强反驳的力度。
- “情况并不是那么糟糕”：此短语帮助学习者表达乐观的态度，适用于各种对话场合。
- “我们在谈什么？”：常用于引导话题，使讨论更为集中，适合在辩论或讨论中使用。
- “只依赖统计数据是危险的”：这句话可用于引导对方注意论述的不全面性，适合深入交流。
逐步跟读指南
对于希望提升英语口语能力的学习者，掌握跟读技巧十分重要。以下是一个具体的逐步跟读（shadow speak）指南，帮助你逐步克服这个演讲的难度：
- 初步听取：反复聆听演讲，专注于整体内容与语调，了解说话者的情感与态度。
- 断句跟读：选择每一个短小的片段，模仿说话者的发音、重音和节奏，进行shadow speech。
- 分析短语：挑选出以上列出的短语，进行深入的上下文理解，并尝试在日常交流中使用。
- 全段模仿：在掌握片段后，尝试跟读整段演讲，注意语音的流畅度与表达的自然度。
- 录音对比：录下自己的声音与原声进行对比，找出差距，进一步改进。
通过这样的练习，你将逐步提升自己的英语口语能力，成为一个更自信的英语使用者。这种shadowing方式，尤其适用于英语口语练习，能够让学习者在真实的交流场景中不断进步。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。