Africa-Press – Lesotho. India is at a pivotal time in its history. The country is climbing the ladder of the world ranking in the economic, technological and industrial field.
It represents a huge market for developed countries: the latter court it for its vast pool of talent and its status as a geopolitical heavyweight. However, the image that the foreign media project of India in the world is often perceived as being negative, even erroneous.
The ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP, and Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi are systematically targeted. The BJP, the “People’s Party of India”, is described as the “Hindu nationalist party” and the Prime Minister as the leader of this nationalist party.
Since 2014, and long before, the New York Times and its colleagues from Washington Post, CNN, etc. , in the United States have set the tone for this anti-BJP music, a refrain taken up in chorus by the BBC, Le Monde, Liberation , weekly magazines, France 24, LCI and other European media.
Seen through the prism of 20th century European history, which marked the minds of the Western world, “nationalism” evokes autocratic and fascist excesses.
Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain in short, the Catholic countries of Europe, had the bitter experience of this in the last century, closely followed by France, which had almost foundered there.
Charged with a negative connotation, the term “nationalist” has become taboo, dragging down any innocuous idea of “patriotism” in the era of wokism, the abolition of borders in Europe and widespread deconstruction.
This Indian “nationalism” would be tainted with a religion, ultimate sacrilege in the West! In this case, the one that is the founder of the thousand-year-old civilization in India and that the Indians call “Sanatan Dharma” – an exploration of being, of the Self, a quest for transcendence, an adoration of the divine in its various manifestations and a consciousness of cosmic energy – which is the opposite of the religions known in the world in general and, more particularly, their relationship to political power throughout history.
The media sphere persists in conveying a negative message to a public uninitiated to the specificities of India, with each reference to the so-called “Hindu nationalist” party, information repeated and translated in chain on an international scale.
A litany favored by the so-called leftist parties in India, the Congress Party, the Communist Party and the Aam Aadmi Party, but which failed to turn the electorate away from the BJP in the last two general elections.
This is to misunderstand the history of India, a tragic history strewn with multiple invasions launched by the politico-military power of the Turkish-Mogul and Arab world which carried out there the greatest genocide in the history of humanity, the massacre of 80 million men, women and children, according to historians.
A tragedy witnessed by the “Hindu Kush”, the Valley of the Death of the Hindus, in present-day Afghanistan. To this must be added an occupation of much of India taken over and extended by rival European powers and ultimately dominated by the British East India Company for 250 years in a territory that also included Pakistan and Bangladesh. before independence in 1947.
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