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Twitter thread by Suhag A. Shukla

Not left - Not right. Hindu lens. Open mind. Garba freak. Veg foodie. Mom
of two. Executive Director - Hindu American Foundation. Tweets and
retweets personal.

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There is a disturbing tendency among groups in the diaspora

to religionize what are fundamentally political reactions to
political actions. This religionizing creates a binary where
every political actor & policy is necessarily pro-x or anti-y. 1/n

In this paradigm, abrogation #Article370 is anti-Muslim

ignoring KP's and its anti-terror ramification. #CAA a pro-
persecuted minority amnesty law is anti-Muslim, and the
protests glorified. Now the #FarmersBill is portrayed as a
anti-Sikh and protests romanticized. 2/

The protests are, in fact, merging, as anti-CAA #Dadi & a Dalit

political party head join the farmers. But when roads &
highways are blocked for months on end, at some point,
commuters will demand roads are opened. But the
religionized context-artificially constructed-means 3/

any such action is anti-x religion. This is where the Western

media-that eagerly laps up the false religious positioning,
plays a role. We know religionizing is rooted within a colonial,
white-savior interpretive paradigm, so a complex unpacking
is o the cards. So who will? 4/

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The @nytimes has a Bret Stephens or Tom Friedman and had

Bari Weiss to seriously/sympathetically bring perspectives
rooted in Jewish awareness. There is Wajahat Ali to bring a
positivist Muslim lens to contemporary issues. Who interprets
India with a sympathetic lens? 5/

Who speaks for India in the Western press? Rana Ayyub in

@washingtonpost. Basharat Peer in @nytimes Dhume in
@WSJ Mukherjee in @business. None would be accused of a
sympathetic disposition to contemporary India. Until that
changes, media coverage will be predictably predictable.

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