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Letters | Time to give Narendra Modi and Indian Hindus a break
- Muslims and other minorities in India enjoy more than equal rights and absolute liberty
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I write in response to “White nationalism finds a kindred spirit. In India” (March 23), by Soumya Shankar. I live in mainland China, but visit Hong Kong occasionally. I glanced through your Sunday features section when I was there few days back, and I still do not understand why you are so harsh on India and take such an anti-Hindu stance.
Not even China’s state-owned media is so brutal about my native land, when they have far more valid reasons to be. It would seem your paper simply hates Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
No country in the world is immune from crime, some less and some more. Racist xenophobic attacks, for example, have been seen in Indonesia, where the large Chinese community has been targeted. Muslims, repeatedly mentioned in Ms Shankar’s article, are not as safe as you believe, either in Europe or even in China where I live.
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And finally, on the subject of cows: the levels of hypocrisy from non-Indians, especially Westerners, about this issue never fail to surprise me. When it comes to dogs, you treat them like family members, and will hold big demonstrations when some Asian countries eat dog meat. But when it comes to most Hindus’ veneration of cows, you will despise it.
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Yes, some people do consume beef in India but, most of the time, that is beef from buffaloes, not cows. Besides, bans on cow slaughter were not started by Modi, but have been in place for decades.
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