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YOU CANNOT BE PRO-INDIA/PRO MODI IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES TODAY
After speaking to Indian-origin students in college campuses, I’ve come to know that the one thing they cannot afford to do is to praise Prime Minister Modi’s policies or defend India’s actions on anything. Professors openly show their dislike of PM Modi. They’ve made up their mind that he is Hitler and there is no democracy nor press freedom in India and Muslims are getting assaulted in large numbers by Hindus. Anyone who dares to defend India or point out that the Indian reality is different from how NYT and Economist project it is given a cold treatment and profiled as a right-wing fascist. But get up in class to speak negatively about India and you will be given extra time to speak and applauded. As a result, many Indians are fitting themselves into the required narrative.
Recently, I heard about one post-doc from India who naively thought he was duty-bound to explain to explain to profs and colleagues that NYT and WaPo were publishing false narratives. Chap is now wondering why none of the profs are giving feedback as he applies for faculty positions.
One Indian student recalls that the first time she realized the bigotry of her friends was when Article 370 was rescinded. She thought her college friends were rational people but suddenly they changed their profile photos in social media to the color red to signify that Kashmir was bleeding. When she tried to reason with her friends by explaining how Kashmir had been kept backward by state politicians and how Hindus had been driven out from their homes overnight, they refused to listen and called it Hindutva propaganda. So now she does not discuss such topics any more with her peers.
There is a huge lobby of leftists-Muslims-Palestine supporters-Israel haters who do not allow any conversation outside their embedded narratives. The only way Indians can survive on American college campuses is by avoiding any talk of Indian politics and accepting the boundaries in which they can operate.
Who would have thought that one day, American universities, which epitomized free speech would become such a hotbed of intolerance?
After speaking to Indian-origin students in college campuses, I’ve come to know that the one thing they cannot afford to do is to praise Prime Minister Modi’s policies or defend India’s actions on anything. Professors openly show their dislike of PM Modi. They’ve made up their mind that he is Hitler and there is no democracy nor press freedom in India and Muslims are getting assaulted in large numbers by Hindus. Anyone who dares to defend India or point out that the Indian reality is different from how NYT and Economist project it is given a cold treatment and profiled as a right-wing fascist. But get up in class to speak negatively about India and you will be given extra time to speak and applauded. As a result, many Indians are fitting themselves into the required narrative.
Recently, I heard about one post-doc from India who naively thought he was duty-bound to explain to explain to profs and colleagues that NYT and WaPo were publishing false narratives. Chap is now wondering why none of the profs are giving feedback as he applies for faculty positions.
One Indian student recalls that the first time she realized the bigotry of her friends was when Article 370 was rescinded. She thought her college friends were rational people but suddenly they changed their profile photos in social media to the color red to signify that Kashmir was bleeding. When she tried to reason with her friends by explaining how Kashmir had been kept backward by state politicians and how Hindus had been driven out from their homes overnight, they refused to listen and called it Hindutva propaganda. So now she does not discuss such topics any more with her peers.
There is a huge lobby of leftists-Muslims-Palestine supporters-Israel haters who do not allow any conversation outside their embedded narratives. The only way Indians can survive on American college campuses is by avoiding any talk of Indian politics and accepting the boundaries in which they can operate.
Who would have thought that one day, American universities, which epitomized free speech would become such a hotbed of intolerance?
YOU CANNOT BE PRO-INDIA/PRO MODI IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES TODAY
After speaking to Indian-origin students in college campuses, I’ve come to know that the one thing they cannot afford to do is to praise Prime Minister Modi’s policies or defend India’s actions on anything. Professors openly show their dislike of PM Modi. They’ve made up their mind that he is Hitler and there is no democracy nor press freedom in India and Muslims are getting assaulted in large numbers by Hindus. Anyone who dares to defend India or point out that the Indian reality is different from how NYT and Economist project it is given a cold treatment and profiled as a right-wing fascist. But get up in class to speak negatively about India and you will be given extra time to speak and applauded. As a result, many Indians are fitting themselves into the required narrative.
Recently, I heard about one post-doc from India who naively thought he was duty-bound to explain to explain to profs and colleagues that NYT and WaPo were publishing false narratives. Chap is now wondering why none of the profs are giving feedback as he applies for faculty positions.
One Indian student recalls that the first time she realized the bigotry of her friends was when Article 370 was rescinded. She thought her college friends were rational people but suddenly they changed their profile photos in social media to the color red to signify that Kashmir was bleeding. When she tried to reason with her friends by explaining how Kashmir had been kept backward by state politicians and how Hindus had been driven out from their homes overnight, they refused to listen and called it Hindutva propaganda. So now she does not discuss such topics any more with her peers.
There is a huge lobby of leftists-Muslims-Palestine supporters-Israel haters who do not allow any conversation outside their embedded narratives. The only way Indians can survive on American college campuses is by avoiding any talk of Indian politics and accepting the boundaries in which they can operate.
Who would have thought that one day, American universities, which epitomized free speech would become such a hotbed of intolerance?
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