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There Was a Time ‘Fake News’ Was Used to Target ‘Hindus’ for Spreading Diseases -Anjana Prakash

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Racist and communal poison, backed by a section of the media and intelligentsia, has long been a staple of politics.

In these days of COVID-19, I am spending a lot of time catching up on history and it is clear that there are deep connections between the evils of our present times and what happened in days gone by. Whenever there is a clash between truth and belief, there is politics of the worst kind.

In his paper, ‘The historical perspective of Americans of Asian Indian origin 1790-1997’,  Srirajasekhar Bobby Koritala charts the course of Indian immigration to the United States – how the migrants found their feet and the hostility they faced on foreign lands because of outlandish beliefs about them. He lists two categories of people: ‘Great Americans’ who helped Indians in the US, and a ‘Rogues’ Gallery’, where, amongst others, he places Theodore Roosevelt – “racist, imperialist, colonialist, Anti-Asian, anti -Indian’. It is fortunate that despite the former US president’s official standing as a “historically respectable personality,” no one in the US has so far sought to dub Koritala an anti-national.

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