“Why New York Times cries ‘majoritarianism’ as Hindus remain ‘second-class citizens’ in India”, First Post, August 16, 2023:
“The New York Times is at it again. A week before India celebrated its 77th Independence Day, it came up with another alarmist article, titled “India Is On The Brink” (9 August 2023). The latest provocation was the violence in Manipur.
The article, written by Debasish Roy Chowdhury, a Hong Kong-based Indian author, is deeply problematic and propagandist. It says that the “fuse for the current unrest in Manipur was lit by the politics of Hindu supremacy, xenophobia and religious polarisation championed by his (Modi’s) Bharatiya Janata Party.” It’s ironical to see a Hong Kong-based author criticising democracy in India!
It continues, “In Manipur, Christians are bearing the brunt as the state’s BJP government stokes the insecurities of the majority ethnic Meitei, who are predominantly Hindu. State leaders have branded the Kuki who populate the hill districts and who are mostly Christian as infiltrators from Myanmar, blamed them for poppy cultivation intended for the drug trade and evicted some of them from their forest habitats….”
Read the full article at Firstpost.com
