Not a great note to end the year on, but the abject hypocrisy of the West on the atrocities against minority Hindus in Bangladesh must not only be called out — it should be underscored for what it really is: a colossal failure and a tame surrender to the forces of radical, fundamentalist Islam, unlike all the big talk, virtue-signalling, and sermonising coming India’s way from the epitomes of democracy in the West.

The blood boils when the UNHCR puts out a one-sided, whitewashed statement condemning the killing of the anti-India hate-peddler Sharif Osman bin Hadi, choosing to remain completely silent on the gruesome public lynching of Dipu Chandra Das on mere allegations of blasphemy. But is this silence and erasure a deliberate Mummers’ Farce or a pantomime of useful idiocy cloaked in the garb of universalism, globalism, postcolonial secularism, and religious tolerance? Events as they have unfolded over the past year—and those gone by — have established quite clearly where the sympathies of the West lie, and they certainly do not give a dime for certain kinds of religious groups, Hindus being the most prominent among them.

The role of the Western media — and the 0.5 segment in India — in cementing false narratives and aiding and abetting the erasure of the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh remains second to none. Let us consider the half-cooked, perfunctory, badly researched stories platforms like the BBC and Al Jazeera produced following days of speculation about the silence of the West on the Dipu Das lynching incident. Equating the communally charged, genocidal public execution of Das by a frenzied mob chanting Nara-e-Takbir and Allahu Akbar with what the reports described as “similar incidents of mob lynching of minorities in Hindu-majoritarian India" is not only libellous slander; it smacks of contextual ignorance, gratuitous ambivalence, and an almost laughable effort at establishing a false equivalence where none exists.

The intention of the BBC and other powerful Western media platforms remains clear — to deflect the blame for the Hindu genocide taking place in Bangladesh on to India — thereby extending a helpful push to the anti-India narrative put in place by the........

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