“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out ‘stop!’"
These lines, written by the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, came to me as I heard the horrifying speeches delivered by Hindu nationalists during a religious conference this month, when leaders issued direct calls for genocide against Muslims.
“If 100 of us are ready to kill two million of them, then we will win”, said Pooja Shakun Pandey, a leader of Hindu Mahasabha, a militant organization, at a conference in the city of Haridwar, 150 miles north of New Delhi.… Seguir leyendo »
As President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sat down to a dinner on Tuesday of cajun-spiced salmon, mutton biryani, marinated leg of lamb and hazelnut apple pie, the family of Shahid Khan, 22, was at New Delhi’s Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital trying to make sense of his murder. Shahid, a rickshaw driver and the youngest of four brothers, was one of more than a dozen of people killed as India’s capital erupted in riots over the government’s contentious citizenship law.
As New Delhi became a battlefield for the worst communal violence the city has seen in decades, there was a dissonant and surreal spectacle of toasts and chumminess unfolding at the regal Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace, where Trump was being hosted.… Seguir leyendo »
Editor’s note: In light of the violent protests in India this week, we asked Suparna Chaudhry to update her December 2019 analysis of India’s Citizenship Amendment Bill.
In December, India’s Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill, fundamentally changing the country’s Citizenship Act of 1955. That prompted protests by people from a wide range of backgrounds, including students across the country.
The protests and sit-ins in the capital, New Delhi, have continued for more than two months and have been largely peaceful. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has used incendiary rhetoric, threatening to shoot the protesters. A local BJP leader issued an “ultimatum” to protesters in the lead-up to President Trump’s first visit to the country on Monday and Tuesday.… Seguir leyendo »
Winston Churchill decía que el nacionalismo era la ideología de los imbéciles. Y admitiendo que estuviese en lo cierto, hay que plantearse que se ha producido un enorme aumento de la imbecilidad en la política. La excitación nacionalista se ha convertido en el argumento definitivo para la conquista del poder, sin duda porque el socialismo ha fracasado y el liberalismo es demasiado racional. Nadie escapa a ello, en Europa, en EE.UU., en Brasil o en China. O en el Himalaya. Para entender lo que hoy en día inflama a Cachemira y enfrenta a India con Pakistán como dos gallos de corral, hay que remontarse a 1947, el año en que un virrey británico con prisas por marcharse dividió el Imperio de las Indias.… Seguir leyendo »
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