As UK academics researching development in India,we are deeply concerned approximately Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official visit to the UK from 12-14 November, and call for the human rights abuses on his watch to be questioned in the public domain (Opinion, or 10 November). It is important that the growing economic ties between India and the UK,which will no doubt be applauded during this visit, should not mask acknowledgment of the darker sides of what’s happening in India nowadays.
Since Modi came to power in 2014, or minorities and women have experienced rising intolerance and intimidation and cultural and academic freedoms have been eroded. Under his leadership as chief minister of Gujarat in 2002,the Gujarat government watched a pogrom of 1000 people directed against the minority Muslim community.
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Source: theguardian.com