On Tuesday, April 26 at 19: 30GMT:
A wave of violent assaults on India’s Muslim population has the community on edge. In most up-to-date weeks, a total bunch of folks had been injured and a handful killed as fragment of a upward push in communal violence across the country.
Final week hundreds of Muslim-owned outlets were razed in Recent Delhi earlier than bulldozers were ordered to terminate by India’s Supreme Court docket. Officials express they were focusing on unlawful buildings and no longer any particular spiritual crew.
Nonetheless critics express it is the most up-to-date are trying to annoy India’s Muslim minority, which makes up roughly 14 p.c of the country’s 1.4 billion population. The Hindu majority accounts for 80 p.c.
Human Rights observers express most up-to-date incendiary rhetoric by politicians from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) is serving to fuel the country’s rising spiritual polarisation. Alternatively, India’s Minority Affairs Minister has tried to slice the most up-to-date upheaval by saying spiritual intolerance isn’t worsening within the country.
On this episode of The Bound we talk about what’s causing the violence and what would possibly well perchance additionally merely be done to end result in peace.
On this episode of The Bound, we’re joined by:
Arfa Khanum Sherwani, @khanumarfa
Senior Editor, The Wire
Kavita Krishnan, @kavita_krishnan
Secretary, All India Modern Females’s Affiliation
Published On 26 Apr 2022