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Tracking rising religious hatred in India, from half a world away By Pranshu Verma January 16, 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/16/hindu-hate-crimes-raqib-hameed-naik/ Raqib Hameed Naik, a Kashmiri Muslim journalist hiding in America, is ready to bring his data project out of the shadows  -- Naik, 29, is the founder of HindutvaWatch.org, one of the most robust real-time data sets of human rights abuses in the world’s largest democracy. Using video and picture evidence submitted by a network of Indian activists, along with news aggregation, the site tracks hate crimes by Hindus against Muslims, Christians and members of the lower-ranked castes. Since its founding in April 2021, it has catalogued more than 1,000 instances of violent attacks and rhetoric. 

“गुजरात दंगों में मोदी सीधे ज़िम्मेदार”BBC की इस फ़िल्म को भारत में ‘देखना मना है’ |Modi Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9GXCk-sj_k Jan 19, 2023
A BBC documentary, ‘India: The Modi Question,’ looks at “the tensions between India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the country’s Muslim minority”, as well as “investigating claims” concerning his role in the large-scale communal violence that erupted in Gujarat in the months of February and March, in 2002 that left “over a thousand dead.”

In the first part of a new series aired in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on Tuesday evening, a UK government report, earlier marked as “restricted”, that has never been published or revealed so far, has been shown in detail. The documentary has a series of images of the text of the report, and in one statement, the inquiry report says that “Narendra Modi is directly responsible”. It refers to the chain of events as a “systematic campaign of violence” which has “all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing.”

गोधरा के 20 साल: दीवारें लगाकर बाँट दिये गये हिंदू-मुसलमान | Gujarat Election 2022 | Arfa Khanum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXiVviB3q_4&list=PLzia1qLN9v2AHSiNcnbKDpcn3L17RuAIb&index=14&t=0s

The Wire Meets Victims Of 2002 Riots, 'Wounds Of Riots Still Fresh' | Gujarat Election | Arfa Khanum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkG1HAJvsfw&list=PLzia1qLN9v2AHSiNcnbKDpcn3L17RuAIb&index=5&t=0s

Complaint Issues Against BBC Documentary On Gujarat Riots Targeting PM Modi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQnSf8CvAc Jan 20, 2023 Advocate Vineet Jindal  20 Jan, 2023 argues that the documentary has the effect of dividing the country..

Another popular myth that exists in the population discourse is that the Muslims bear way too many children than Hindus and thus impede national development. However, the data suggests that the fertility rate among Muslims have gone down faster (from 4.4 in 1992-93 to 2.3 during 2019, a 2.1 point decrease) than Hindus (from 3.3 in 1992-93 to 1.94 during 2019, a 1.36 point decline) in the last two decades. Further, fertility rates of Hindus in many states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkahand is higher than Muslims in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Tamil Nadu, suggesting that fertility rates are a regional phenomena than a religious one, linked to various socio-economic developmental factors of the region in which people live.

https://thewire.in/society/the-mythical-population-problem-and-the-actual-worries 

The rhetoric of population explosion, population bomb or population emergency mobilises a disproportionate response from the state apparatuses and has been on a rise since Assam Population Bill, 2021 and draft UP Population Bill, 2021 brought two-child policies into popular discourse once again. A number of BJP-ruled states since are discussing bringing in a population control law, despite India reaching fertility rate of 2.0 nationally.

This discourse also puts the blame on people for reproducing too much and taking away from the resources of the country, as if people reproduce in a vacuum. This individualisation of blame for the problem overlooks structural problems and policy failures that has led to lower female participation in workforce, education levels and political representation, lack of access to sufficient and diverse contraceptive methods and an overall inequitable developmental process, all of which influences fertility levels of population. It must be kept in mind that resources of the country are not a static entity entirely, and it increases as demographic dividend is reaped.

by Sushant Kumar

21/01/2023