“Erased In Silence: How Intelligentsia Ignores Hindu Persecution”, News 18, July 23, 2025:

“For generations, the liberal intelligentsia in Bharat and the West have platformed themselves as the flagbearers of a conscience-driven society and champions of the oppressed and voiceless. Yet, their silence on the relentless persecution of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh exposes the absolute hollowness of this claim.

These are states whose very foundations were laid on the idea of Islamic othering. The non-Muslim, particularly the Hindu, exists as an unwanted relic of a rejected hangover of 1947. As a consequence, the persecution they suffer isn’t just societal but institutional, legal and sustained via the State’s policy mechanisms.

It is often forgotten that over 90% of Bharatiya Muslims of undivided British Bharat, who voted in the 1946 elections, supported the Muslim League’s call for Pakistan. Yet after Partition, more than 70% of them who voted, chose to stay back in Bharat and not embrace the Pakistan they helped create……”