Dear New York Times, India has

chosen Modi 2.0, deal with it

By Sanghamitra • opindia.com • 4 min
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 PM Modi road show in Varanasi ahead of filing nomination

The bulk of le tist controlled international media has always been

hell-bent on projecting India as a land of backward, poor, snake
charmers. The fact that the world has been changing under their
wrinkled-up noses while they keep pontificating from ivory
towers has somehow not registered with most of le tist,
colonialist media, be it in India or abroad.
The New York Times, in particular, has been constantly,
incessantly indulging in anti-India bashing. As a BJP government,
which they term as a ‘Hindu nationalist’ government had taken
charge in 2014, NYT had just upped their hate India quotient by
several notches. From fake narratives about ‘Muslims in fear’ to
dismissive, hateful articles on India’s culture, traditions and
customs, they have done all they could to further their narrative
against our country.

Even as counting for the Lok Sabha elections started earlier

today, just take a look at how they have served the news:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of the most powerful

and divisive leaders India has produced in decades,
appeared headed for another 5-year term, according to
preliminary results https://t.co/YtbXFVhMcU

— The New York Times (@nytimes)

PM Modi, the Prime Minister who has brought in the world’s
largest health care scheme for the poor, has provided millions of
women with free cooking gas, has ensured India surges ahead in
infrastructure, technology, foreign investment, economic reforms
and what not, is defined as ‘India’s most divisive leader’ by NYT.

The media outlet does not even bother to acknowledge that

Modi’s win means that India, that had been divided and torn over
regionalism, casteism, hooliganism for decades had voted
overwhelmingly for development and nationalism. Modi’s win
proves that India has discarded the shackles of dynasty politics,
caste politics and regionalism that had been winning in past
elections by pitching neighbour against neighbour, community
against community and state against state. Modi’s win thumps
the arrival of a unified, assertive and proud India that has finally
learnt to bury its faultlines and look forward into the future.

In its attempts to malign India and the NDA’s ‘Hindu nationalist’

government, NYT has le t no stones unturned. When India
achieved the rare feat of a successful Mars mission in its maiden
attempt, NYT had published a cartoon where a poor man ‘India’
in Dhoti Kurta, holding the rope of his cow, knocking at the doors
of ‘Elite Space Club’.

NY Times cartoon a ter India’s Mangalyaan

This year, India added another feather to its hat. The India that
NYT had mocked as a poor brown man knocking at the doors of
the world’s ‘Elite Space Club’ shot down a satellite at the lower
earth orbit with phenomenal precision, becoming not just a
member of the ‘elite club’ but a space superpower.

NYT, which rushes in to brand random crimes as ‘Muslims under

attack in India’, had presented the news as ‘Modi says that India
shot down a satellite’, peddling a sense of disbelief and doubt.

In the case of the Kathua rape and murder that was lapped up by
the le tists and was incessantly peddled as a case of Hindu
atrocity on Muslims, NYT had published articles blaming the
majority community, blatantly ignoring the countless reports that
pointed towards a larger conspiracy against the accused. From
Hindu lawyers to Hindu housewives, NYT had been in a hurry to
put the blame squarely on ‘Hindus of India’, like the pseudo-
liberals and their ecosystem.
When one looks at their past reports on India, a distinguished
pattern emerges. Issues, data, facts notwithstanding, NYT only
loves to malign India. A tax department raid on the promoters of
NDTV and NYT comes up with an editorial titled ‘India’s Battered
Free Press’ . Then in November 2017, NYT hits another level, they
run an op-ed on how the Saree, India’s widely popular female
attire is in fact, a ‘Tool of Hindu Nationalist Campaign’ . Mahindra
and Mahindra opens a manufacturing plant in the US and NYT
start the same old condescension, totally ignoring the fact that
Mahindra has a significant presence in their country already.

No just India’s present, NYT had attacked India’s past too. They
have even criticised India’s freedom struggle . From insulting the
victims of the Godhra massacre to enabling the bogey of Hindu
terror, NYT has done it all.

NYT’s hatred for India stems partly from the inherent

colonialistic culture that never stops looking down at the “poor
unwashed Indians” and partly from the le tist elitism that holds
every aspect of an indigenous civilisation as backward.

So, when India chooses a government that not only accepts but
proudly asserts its Indic culture, civilisation and Hindu beliefs,
when India shreds the old bondage of caste, community and
social faultlines that have been used as sticks by the likes of NYT
to beat us down with, when India gives a thumping,
unprecedented, overwhelming victory to a man who has made
every single Indian feel proud of their nation, identity and
heritage, the NYT’s heartburn is expected.

India has arrived dear NYT, and India is here to stay. Deal with it.