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Meghnad Desai (Letters, 15 April) plays down the crimes committed by Narendra Modi and suggests that others, too, are sinners in the realm of communal violence. The Indian electorate, he says, knows all of this and should be allowed to choose without external critical comment. Desai sits as a Labour peer and in the past has not been so restrained, recording his willingness to go to war against human rights violations. Now he seems not to wish to speak out against them.
Gurminder K Bhambra
University of Warwick
John Holmwood
University of Nottingham

•  Meghnad Desai writes a history of riots in post-independence India evacuated of almost all political responsibility. It is regrettable that the failure to hold previous culprits for extremist violence to account is represented only as tragedy, and not as a responsibility to which all politicians must rise.

The principal difference between Narendra Modi and the previous government figures Desai mentions is that Modi is standing for the highest public office with current connections to an openly extremist organisation, and with a history of extremism.
Dr Shamira A Meghani
University of Leeds
Dr Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Glasgow School of Business and Society
Dr Leena Kumarappan
London Metropolitan University
Dr Akhil Katyal
Shiv Nadar University, India
R K Dasgupta
University of the Arts
Dr Murad Banaji
University of Portsmouth
Dr Rahul Rao
School of Oriental and African Studies

• Meghnad Desai responds to Priyamvada Gopal's criticisms of Modi (Britain can't simply shrug off this Hindu extremist, 14 April) by listing atrocities that took place under the watch of the Congress party. But criticism of Modi need not imply support for Congress; that's an old diversionary tactic. Surely the orchestrated killing of more than 700 people deserves more than Desai's defeatist observations that "Hindu/Muslim riots are a tragic part of Indian history" and that the partition is to blame for the problems Indian Muslims face today. Riots don't just happen, and the violence in 2002 was not inevitable. There is also a deep legacy that he ignores of coexistence between Hindu and Muslim forms of music, food, literature and worship in the subcontinent.
Ashwini Tambe
University of Maryland

•  The nationwide massacre of Sikhs in 1984 occurred under a Congress government and those responsible should be held to account in a court of law (many of us in the UK have been fighting for exactly that outcome). But that violence and the fact of partition do not excuse the pogroms that occurred in Gujarat in 2002 nor Narendra Modi's role in fomenting them.

Modi's entire political career has been devoted to the cause of the fascist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its affiliates. He was centrally involved in the deeply divisive Hindu supremacist campaigns of previous decades, including the infamous chariot "pilgrimage" from Gujarat to Ayodhya in 1990 that aimed to "retake" the 16th-century Babri mosque, claiming it was the birthplace of the Hindu deity Ram. This campaign led to considerable violence throughout India and the destruction of the mosque by Hindu nationalists in 1992.

In 1991 Modi was a key organiser in the RSS and VHP's Ekta ("Hindu unity") pilgrimage aimed at reclaiming India as "Hindu" and in the process terrorising minorities. In this role, Modi organised the "saffron army" of youth from the RSS and the extremely violent Bajrang Dal. Similarly, Modi was involved in the organisation of another far-right "pilgrimage" campaign in 1997 from Bombay to Delhi which was aimed at making minorities accept a secondary status under Hindu supremacist ideology.

The Gujarat pogroms are not going to be forgotten. Nor is the murder of BJP politician Haren Pandya who accused Modi of involvement in the 2002 carnage, or the brutal murders of Ehsan Jafri MP and many others


Modi cannot escape responsibility for communal violence | @guardianletters | World news | The Guardian
 
Yes modi should deserve a capital punishment and he should be hanged in public infront of all the families of gujrati muslims who lost their loved ones in gujrat riots because of this hindu extremist.
 
Yes modi should deserve a capital punishment and he should be hanged in public infront of all the families of gujrati muslims who lost their loved ones in gujrat riots because of this hindu extremist.
Is the something you can do about it?
 
Meghnad Desai (Letters, 15 April) plays down the crimes committed by Narendra Modi and suggests that others, too, are sinners in the realm of communal violence. The Indian electorate, he says, knows all of this and should be allowed to choose without external critical comment. Desai sits as a Labour peer and in the past has not been so restrained, recording his willingness to go to war against human rights violations. Now he seems not to wish to speak out against them.
Gurminder K Bhambra
University of Warwick
John Holmwood
University of Nottingham

•  Meghnad Desai writes a history of riots in post-independence India evacuated of almost all political responsibility. It is regrettable that the failure to hold previous culprits for extremist violence to account is represented only as tragedy, and not as a responsibility to which all politicians must rise.

The principal difference between Narendra Modi and the previous government figures Desai mentions is that Modi is standing for the highest public office with current connections to an openly extremist organisation, and with a history of extremism.
Dr Shamira A Meghani
University of Leeds
Dr Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Glasgow School of Business and Society
Dr Leena Kumarappan
London Metropolitan University
Dr Akhil Katyal
Shiv Nadar University, India
R K Dasgupta
University of the Arts
Dr Murad Banaji
University of Portsmouth
Dr Rahul Rao
School of Oriental and African Studies

• Meghnad Desai responds to Priyamvada Gopal's criticisms of Modi (Britain can't simply shrug off this Hindu extremist, 14 April) by listing atrocities that took place under the watch of the Congress party. But criticism of Modi need not imply support for Congress; that's an old diversionary tactic. Surely the orchestrated killing of more than 700 people deserves more than Desai's defeatist observations that "Hindu/Muslim riots are a tragic part of Indian history" and that the partition is to blame for the problems Indian Muslims face today. Riots don't just happen, and the violence in 2002 was not inevitable. There is also a deep legacy that he ignores of coexistence between Hindu and Muslim forms of music, food, literature and worship in the subcontinent.
Ashwini Tambe
University of Maryland

•  The nationwide massacre of Sikhs in 1984 occurred under a Congress government and those responsible should be held to account in a court of law (many of us in the UK have been fighting for exactly that outcome). But that violence and the fact of partition do not excuse the pogroms that occurred in Gujarat in 2002 nor Narendra Modi's role in fomenting them.

Modi's entire political career has been devoted to the cause of the fascist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its affiliates. He was centrally involved in the deeply divisive Hindu supremacist campaigns of previous decades, including the infamous chariot "pilgrimage" from Gujarat to Ayodhya in 1990 that aimed to "retake" the 16th-century Babri mosque, claiming it was the birthplace of the Hindu deity Ram. This campaign led to considerable violence throughout India and the destruction of the mosque by Hindu nationalists in 1992.

In 1991 Modi was a key organiser in the RSS and VHP's Ekta ("Hindu unity") pilgrimage aimed at reclaiming India as "Hindu" and in the process terrorising minorities. In this role, Modi organised the "saffron army" of youth from the RSS and the extremely violent Bajrang Dal. Similarly, Modi was involved in the organisation of another far-right "pilgrimage" campaign in 1997 from Bombay to Delhi which was aimed at making minorities accept a secondary status under Hindu supremacist ideology.

The Gujarat pogroms are not going to be forgotten. Nor is the murder of BJP politician Haren Pandya who accused Modi of involvement in the 2002 carnage, or the brutal murders of Ehsan Jafri MP and many others


Modi cannot escape responsibility for communal violence | @guardianletters | World news | The Guardian


Congress has escaped many time. Mulayam escaped, Communist escaped But Modi can not escape.
 
Yes modi should deserve a capital punishment and he should be hanged in public infront of all the families of gujrati muslims who lost their loved ones in gujrat riots because of this hindu extremist.

What about those haramzade Muslims who burnt Hindus alive and were the sole culprits of start of that spontaneous riots ?
 

Go complaint to all your saviours, Newdelhinsa has signed in. Pakistanis like you do not want to hear the truth and when bitter truth is hurled at you, you all think it a prohibition of your liberty to lie or all the accusations you can throw at others (Modi).

Every muslim who was involved in that massacre of Hindus is a haramzada. Rest of the Muslims of Gujarat paid their lives, homes and business for their sins. This is what Muslims have been doing everywhere on this planet. Few muslims will do the 'vardaat' crime and rest will face the wrath; 9/11 is a good example. Look what Kashmiri Muslims are suffering today, they were quite prosperous before they started killing Hindus after being brain washed.

What happened in Gujarat was 9/11 of Gujarat, where local Muslim fanatics burnt the Hindus alive on a train. Rest is history and a good lesson was taught which brought a long lasting peace till today.
 
a good lesson was taught which brought a long lasting peace till today.
Well look at yourself ,you are praising your evil actions against those pregnant muslim women and kids who were slaughtered by hindutva goons . A few hindu were killed but for what reason they slaughtered ten time more muslims?For what reason you killed the innocent ones? This is the real face of hinduism right?
Then i think you should not complain about the lessons your hindu pandits are getting in kashmir in the past 2 decades.
 
Well look at yourself ,you are praising your evil actions against those pregnant muslim women and kids who were slaughtered by hindutva goons . A few hindu were killed but for what reason they slaughtered ten time more muslims?For what reason you killed the innocent ones? This is the real face of hinduism right?
Then i think you should not complain about the lessons your hindu pandits are getting in kashmir in the past 2 decades.

59 ppl were burned to death in a train compartment.
And u expect their relatives etc to follow peace?

Especially when gujrat is 90 pc hindu?

Those times are gone.every action has a reaction dude.

This happens when u burn 59 ppl just according to ur wish,those guys were simply returning from ayodhya.

Same shit is happening in boston,london,chechniya,china,myanmar almost every day.

Who is to blame?

Its muslims vs hindus/sikhs/christians/jews/chinese/buddhists.
Apparently everybody.
Hell its even shia vs sunni in pakistan,iraq,syria!

Now u can ponder over what I wrote or keep writing ur rhetorical posts
 

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