“Why so much hostility towards India and her Parliament?”, Insight UK, May 8, 2024:
“After 75 years of its independence, Bhārat looks forward to letting go of its colonial past from the most gross to the subtlest levels. The subtlest being the repealing of as many as 1,500 laws from the British era which had undertones of slavery (Debroy, 2023). From changing names of prominent roads in the capital New Delih to the Navy Ensign, Bhārat and the Modi administration is coming of age in the post-independence era (New India: Shedding the Vestiges of Colonial Past, 2022).
Nothing illustrates this change more emphatically than the new Saṃsada Bhavana (Parliament Building) inaugurated in May 2023.
However, the Western media, both print and online, including the British media continue to spew unwarranted hatred and hostility towards this new change. From all the major print/online newspapers such as The Telegraph (Singh, 2023), The Guardian (Petersen, 2023) (Moore, 2023), the Times (Dhillon, 2023), the BBC (BBC, 2023) to major news channels, the BBC in particular, missed no opportunity to highlight the sensationalist aspect of the event rather than what it means to a country of 1.4 billion people…….”
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