This is for my friends outside India - thanks for your privately expressed concern, which is appreciated. Vastly more appreciated would be if you could take a minute to express it publicly. Mainstream media in many countries has been largely silent on the issue. (1/n)
At a dinner in Melbourne with a group of very well informed people, I found that most had simply not heard of what was happening, or if they were faintly aware, had no clue about the extent to which the State was clamping down on dissent in as violent a manner as possible. (2/n)
All you have to do is share an account or two of what’s happening in India - whether it’s a writeup on the law or coverage of the protests which have to a large extent been peaceful save for notable exceptions in BJP-ruled states. (3/n)
This isn’t just about empathy or political concern: fascism is everyone’s problem. If you’d like to share something from the big media outlets have a look at anything from the New York Times, the BBC, the Washington Post, the Guardian. (4/n) #CAAProtest #IndiaAgainstCAA
