INDIA SUMMARIZED

Once again, this week India watched the spectacle of its secularist intellectuals and media expressing more sympathy for terrorists than for their victims. Arnab Goswami’s “Don’t Romanticize Terror” clip from his televised The News Hour debate on Kashmir captures the crux of this strange but very familiar phenomenon quite accurately. But let’s backtrack just a little, to the previous week. On July 1, around the same time that the world’s attention was fixed on Dhaka where the terrible Holey Artisan Bakery drama was unfolding, yet another Hindu priest was killed, hacked to death, this time while gathering flowers for morning puja. It was another jihadist act of violence in a systemic, targeted campaign that is the hallmark of intolerance and religious fundamentalism. This also happened in Bangladesh, where Hindus, once the majority community, are now at the very bottom of the totem pole of human survival and dignity. They are also the most vulnerable among the groups...