The Nikkei​ piece says, “the Western nations have mistakenly judged #India to be as democratic as they are”. This despite the #Modi government taking “a series of steps to suppress religious minorities in the country…(and) #Muslims in India face much the same predicament as Islamic people in #China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”. To my mind, it is significant that a writer in Japan rather than in the US or Europe should make this point. https://www.rashmee.com/2023/04/22/expert-opinion-from-japan-on-the-indian-century/
Expert opinion from Japan on the ‘Indian century’ - Rashmee Roshan Lall

On January 29, a piece appeared in Nikkei, the Japanese business daily that’s world’s largest in terms of circulation. Click here to read it. It was by Toru Takahashi, a senior staff writer. What was notable was the clear-eyed but nuanced view it took of India’s undoubted rise and why it may not be wholly … Continue reading "Expert opinion from Japan on the ‘Indian century’"

Rashmee Roshan Lall

"Muslims in India face much the same predicament as #uighurs under #CCP" is ridiculously hyperbolic way of comparing the situations.

The growing repression of civil and religious liberties in increasingly hindu-fundamentalist India is a serious issue that all democracies should be addressing, but Uighurs (and #Tibetans) are facing actual #genocide — erasure as distinct peoples with their own histories, cultures, languages, written scripts, religions...

Think concentration camps, indefinite imprisonment without cause, forced sterilization, *total* surveillance, forced "re-education" (brainwashing) and no hope for a future beyond an "#untermensch" status.

#Nikkei #modi #hindutva #fundamentalism #china
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