A taste of bile.

In an article full of innuendos, presumptions and outright lies one Sushil Aaron tries to prove that the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is similar to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. What is his proof? One BBC fellow, Angus Roxburgh wrote that Putin has " eyes that consume you " by fixing you in a " glowering,piercing, highly unsettling look." Rajiv Sardesai is quoted as writing that although Modi smiled a lot " his eyes at times glared almost unblinkingly - stern, cold and distant." Anyone who saw the live coverage of the Beslan school massacre by the BBC, where 334 people, including 186 little children were massacred by jihadists, would have been sickened by the constant anti-Putin propaganda by the presenter even as explosions and gunfire were killing children. Even today they try to blame the deaths on the Russian forces. How disgusting is that? Maybe Mr Sardesai is a supporter of the Congress which has kept this country poor for 7 decades, repeatedly lost wars which our brave soldiers won through enormous sacrifice and ruined the economy in the last 10 years by encouraging corruption on astronomical scale. Aaron writes," Karen Dawisha, author of a new book Putin's Kleptocracy: Who owns Russia?, describes how Putin rules Russia in concert with former KGB colleagues who have developed a stranglehold on the country's economy and politics. Modi is not there yet but he is a proud RSS pracharak - and although he tries to define an identity beyond that of a Hindu nationalist...." The KGB was a secret police credited with torture, assassinations and espionage. Perhaps Aaron should read The Gulag Archipelago where Solzhenitsyn describes how he was arrested at night and transported in a Stolypin car. Modi is not known to have amassed any wealth, has no heirs and has never enriched any of his family, prompting his estranged wife to file an application under the RTI Act demanding official transport. The RSS is a social organisation based on Hindu values with no connection to the government. Hindus do not convert so there has never been any need for crusade, jihad or inquisition. Also there is no history of systematic abuse of children for decades and cover up as in some other organisation. Aaron says that the during Putin's tenure there has been violence against journalists, including the killing of Anna Politkovskaya and then writes," The Indian press is a lot freer for sure but it is not inconceivable that the scale of hate speech on social media creates a context for vigilantism in the future." Exactly. This article is an absolute example of hate speech disguised as serious journalism. We pay for newspapers so have a right to expect that they should not print pure garbage.