Colonialism is still alive at the British Broadcasting Corporation. Its documentary India: The Modi Question recalls a bygone era where gora sahibs used to oversee matters for their subjects and pronounce them right or wrong. But how often have these foreign nawabs introspected on the excesses wrought by the British Empire upon Indians?

Now they have resurrected the events of Gujarat in 2002 as if a Shylock wants a pound of flesh from Narendra Modi. They are blowing the rusty fog horns of those biased new articles and motivated inquiries that have tried to keep Indian Muslims locked in perpetual victimhood.

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