Comments on Anubhav Gupta’s article Will the World Accept India’s Hindu Nationalist Turn Under Modi?

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from: thebahuofbengal@gmail.com

to: comments@worldpoliticsreview.com, PolicyInstitute@asiasociety.org

date: Sep 23, 2019, 12:50 AM

subject: Comments on Anubhav Gupta’s article Will the World Accept India’s Hindu Nationalist Turn Under Modi?

Anubhav Gupta

Hello, I would like to comment on Anubhav Gupta’s article Will the World Accept India’s Hindu Nationalist Turn Under Modi? An excerpt was published on the Asia Society website. 

Comments:

• Abrogation of Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu & Kashmir, is long overdue. Residents of Jammu and Kashmir were subject to separate laws that gave them fewer rights and protections than other Indian citizens, without the protection of the Indian Constitution. 

• Residents of Ladakh have wanted Ladakh to become a Union Territory for years. They have complained of being socially, economically, and politically marginalized by state policies that favored the Kashmir Valley. 

• Between 1989 and 1991, over 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits (more than 95% of the Valley’s indigenous Hindu population) were driven from the Valley due to a Pakistan-sponsored insurgency and campaign of targeted killings, rape, threats, and destruction of properties and religious sites. They are displaced persons, often living in squalid conditions in the rest of India. 

• As far as National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the state of Assam is concerned, PTI News reported that the final NRC list left out over 19.6 lakh people, of which around 12 lakh (over 60%) are Hindus and Bengali Hindus. 

• Religious minorities suffer discrimination and even persecution in the Muslim majority states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. It is fitting that India would give religious minorities from these countries expedited rights to become naturalized citizens under the Citizenship Amendment Bill. 

Mr. Gupta’s article vilified Hindu nationalism, Narendra Modi and the BJP. Sadly, Asia Society, ASPI and media in the U.S. and India promulgate this view. It pains me that someone with a Hindu name like Anubhav Gupta doesn’t stand up for Hindus.

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Sources:

• Gupta, A. (2019, September 19). Will the World Accept India's Hindu Nationalist Turn Under Modi? Retrieved from https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28202/will-the-world-accept-india-s-hindu-nationalist-turn-under-modi 

• Gupta, A. (2019, September 19). Will the World Accept India's Hindu Nationalist Turn Under Modi? Retrieved from https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/will-world-accept-indias-hindu-nationalist-turn-under-modi 

• Tapadar, P. (2019, September 22). Exclusion of Hindu Bengalis from Assam NRC changing political. Retrieved from http://ptinews.com/news/10867311_Exclusion-of-Hindu-Bengalis-from-Assam-NRC-changing-political.html 

• What You May Not Know About Kashmir and Articles 370/35A. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.hafsite.org/media/pr/what-you-may-not-know-about-kashmir-and-articles-37035a