Is doctoral scholar writing on behalf of someone else?
THIS letter is a response to Jay Ramasubramanyam’s opinion piece, “India’s treatment of Muslims, migrants puts lives at risk during Covid-19” (the POST, May 27 – 31).
One really wonders why the POST would dedicate space to a doctoral scholar from the low-rated Canadian Carleton University that ranks 19th in its own country, and below 650 in the world university’s rankings.
The fact that Ramasubramanyam is in a North American university does not render either him or the university he is attending as necessarily competent. From his name alone, it is easy to gauge that he is actually writing at the behest of someone else.
If Ramasubramanyam is sincerely interested in the status of minorities in South Asian countries, then he should also look at the plight of Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsees and Christians in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
I have raised this issue previously against some of the POST’s Islamist/ Jihadist contributors.
Ramasubramanyam’s column has reference to other minority and marginalised groups in India. But his overarching focus is really about Muslim minorities in India.
Since 2014, the leftist and Islamist groups in India had built a narrative around how intolerable India is for the Muslim minority to live because the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-backed Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014.
But despite this, they are now reversing their narrative to ask for the inclusion of Muslims from the surrounding Islamic states to come to India. Where is the logic in this? Of course, if a deeper analysis of who these countries want to send to India is understood, then it will unmask the truth about the Wahabi/Sunni puritanism against the Shia and Ahmediya minorities living among them.
The Sunni majority in these countries are cunningly exploiting and murdering these Muslim minorities with impunity. Why doesn’t Ramasubramanyam
write about this too, if he is acting on his own?
Only recently the Organisation of Islamic States (56 of them) refused to heed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s bluff against India for their alleged ill-treatment of Muslims.
What better authority can there be against Ramasubramanyam’s diatribe?
ANAND SINGH Hindu Association of SA
Durban