A group of senior journalists issued a statement today condemning the “cold and calculated silence from the country’s top leaders” in the face of a “marked increase in hate speech and even open calls for genocide”.
“The concerted amplification of hatred has been growing over the past years and months, as has the attendant advocacy of violence,” the statement said. “Sometimes, the occasion is an election, at other times it is a political gathering, a so-called ‘dharam sansad’, or a controversy over clothing, or even the screening of a movie.”
