Incorrect Reporting - Financial Times

An article by Mr. Reed and Ms Singh appeared in Financial Times. Headline of the article "The Hindu temple central to Narendra Modi’s vision for India".

Portions of the article appeared to convey incorrect truth about what happened in India. One by one and side by side a clarification is issued in this blog.

The attempt is to provide a correct understanding to the western readers.

I wish to state that select portion from the article is reproduced here to explain the position. 

Authors wrote in FT	Ground Reality
Three decades after Hindu zealots tore down a mosque at Ayodhya…	It was Hindu activist. The mosque was brought down. A  wrong narrative. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj0dMceYYhM Must watch video for Foreign and Indian writers.
Modi, who has ruled India since 2014…	Modi has governed India. Will Reed use the same term for Mr. Biden or other western Heads of state. Modi was elected by crores of Indian in a election.
“What Modi is trying to do by developing Ayodhya is [make this] . . . Hinduism’s Vatican,”	This is biased selection from the authors to explain their writing to western readers. He could have used “Cultural centre of India or as Uttar Pradesh CM stated Ram Mandir will be symbol of cultural, spiritual and social unity of India as ‘Rashtra Mandir’ https://organiser.org/2024/01/02/213955/bharat/ram-mandir-will-be-symbol-of-cultural-spiritual-and-social-unity-of-india-as-rashtra-mandir-up-cm-yogi-adityanath/
“Temples are not the government’s business; unemployment, inflation, public welfare and national security are,” Shashi Tharoor, an MP…..	Authors are ignorant or not writing about Indian Government collecting taxes and governing only Hindu Temples and not Christian, Muslim places of worship. Please read this article Indefinite state control of temples is unjust – Hindustan Times. This is select reporting of truth.
Politicians representing India’s roughly 200mn Muslims say the temple project is part of a drive by Modi’s BJP government to push their own mosques and history aside--	Does the authors   capture the truth for western Christian and Muslim readers that Muslim invaders destroyed around 30,000 temples. Advise to authors,   Muslim invaders ruled India and not PM Modi. Pleas read : 'We will never know the number of temples desecrated through India's history': Richard Eaton www.scroll.in
“This is a symbolic celebration of showing Muslims their place in today’s India,” said Asaduddin Owaisi, an MP and head of the All India majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party. “This has opened the floodgates for many more masjid (mosque) issues…	Owaisi brother Akbaruddin stated in 2013, the junior Owaisi had said that if police is removed for 15 minutes, “we (Muslims) will finish 100 crore Hindus” India Today. The western Christian and Muslim readers will never know this truth about Owaisi as they will not know the ground reality about the symbolic celebration. I urge western readers to go to YouTube and type Ayodhya Ram Temple celebration to know the ground reality about how ordinary people across India celebrate consecration of Ram Temple.
Hindu nationalists have been fighting to demolish or demote mosques built during India’s centuries of Muslim domination…	Here the authors   does not write Muslim Invaders but use the word domination. This is incorrect. The invaders came from outside and they ruled, converted, killed and destroyed India / Bharat.
Some of the disputes predate India’s independence; others are more recent and rode on India’s wave of Hindu nationalism….	Not some, all disputes are not prior to India’s Independence but they date to Mughal Invaders who ruled India before August 24, 1608.
…..years of litigation, the Supreme Court in 2019 approved the construction of Ram Mandir, despite a lack of conclusive evidence that there had ever been a Hindu temple on the site….	Here I request the legal fraternity to look into the matter as written by the authors that Supreme Court of India approved construction of Ram Temple despite lack of conclusive evidence. This appears to be a disrespect of Indian Supreme Court and whether this needs to be taken up.