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Mar 4 (APP): India has reaped “universal infamy on account of its communal bloodletting,” with Western experts forecasting “gloom and doom” for the country. Times of India notes that the world media is splattering India’s Hindu-Muslim blood feud on its broadcasts and news pages amid questions about its political and social stability. “Suddenly, India looks like an overblown version of the many violence-wracked small states of Asia and Africa,” the report entitled “Indian earns universal infamy over riots,” said. The bloodbath in Gujarat, the Washington datelined report said, has eclipsed in the Western media all other current issues including the violence in Middle East. Almost all major newspapers and television networks have been carrying wrenching reports about the madness that has seized the “normally placid if chaotic country.” The events are proving to be embarrassing for Indians, Indian-Americans and Indophiles who wear the country’s diversity as a “badge of honour.” The riots, following the fractured political verdict in Uttar Pradesh, has returned western experts on the region to the old theme of forecasting gloom and doom for India. “A combination of widening political cracks and increasing religious violence means India is entering another worrying time,” the respected Economist wrote this week.
Even before the elections and the riots, the India-Pakistan tensions had led former Presidential candidate Steve Forbes to question India’s cohesiveness. “India is not a homogenous state,” Forbes argued in a March 4 comment in his magazine, warning that any attempt by the ruling coalition to wage war could result in the country coming unhinged.
The comment, and the events thereafter, has come as a godsend to Khalistani and Kashmiri groups. “They have now resurfaced to amplify India’s current troubles to the western media, going as far as to urge Secretary of State Colin Powell to condemn Hindu terrorism.” The riots have also featured on the respected television programs like Jim Lehrer News Hour with grim but largely fair commentary.
“This kind of violence, if it ramifies, could really undermine considerably India’s entire attempt to establish what kind of a society it wants to be from this time onward,” Gould said. Richard Lariviere, an academic from University of Texas at Austin and an expert on Indian religious law and Hinduism, put the events in perspective saying “communalism in India is a societal cancer in the same way that racism is a societal cancer in the United States. “ From time to time there are remissions and one is even hopeful that you’re curing these terrible cancers, but then some awful event rips open the new wounds,” he said. But Lariviere was critical of India’s political class, which instead of choosing touch economic prescriptions to rectify the inequities “often articulated political slogans in terms of communal differences.”
