Stand up against attacks on India’s pluralism, for Lankesh

Prof Mohan J Dutta, Provost’s Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Communications and New Media at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, as well as Courtesy Professor of Communication at Purdue University, noted the most recent murder of one of India’s prominent journalists, Ms Gauri Lankesh is symptomatic of a larger climate of politically motivated attacks on journalists asking difficult questions and critical of the far-right Bharatiya Janata Party’s Hindutva agenda of targeting minorities that risk turning India into a republic of hate.

• The Straits Times, 8 September 2017, Opinion, pA22