BBC’s anti-Modi stance promotes imagined Hindu supremacy. Muslims in India are not at risk

02 February, 2023

My Leftist friends want to believe that Modi is a bad guy. The BBC, of course, has listened to them and is convinced that Modi is a bad guy too.

Most of my friends know me as an anglophile and frankly, even as a Raj-lover. That is why I write this column with “sadness”. I can never forget the hundreds of BBC programs I have listened to or watched over the last 60 years. DVDs are not popular today. For the record, I have the entire DVD collection of Shakespeare plays. The BBC was, for me, a reminder of the best of Britain. After all, George Orwell worked there, and it was the BBC that gave breaks to V.S. Naipaul and Mulk Raj Anand. It is deeply disappointing to see a respected institution turn to blatantly tainted and mendacious reporting. What can one say about these times: “O temporal, o di immortal”

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