India, Aug. 2 -- For generations, the liberal intelligentsia in India and the West have platformed themselves as the champions of a conscience driven society and flagbearers of the oppressed and voiceless. Yet, their silence on the inexorable persecution of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh exposes their absolute hollowness of this claim. These are states whose very foundations were laid on the idea of Islamic othering. The non-Muslim, particularly the Hindu, exists as an unwanted relic of a rejected hangover of 1947. As a consequence, the persecution they suffer isn't just societal but institutional, legal and sustained via the States policy mechanisms.
It is often forgotten that over 90% of Indian Muslims of undivided British India, who ...