Barkha Dutt, a prominent Indian TV journalist and broadcaster, has commented on US President Donald Trump's visit to India that it is supposed to be a great show of India's soft power and a celebration of the world's oldest and largest democracies.
In her Washington Post article, Dot said that the visit for Trump was an opportunity to dazzle the Indian public, with a focus on the influential and wealthy Indian community of Americans during the election year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also looking to change the headlines from the recent electoral defeat in Delhi and the slow economy, and some dangerously negative coverage in the global media.
Instead, the politics of hate exploded in India, so that the whole world could witness, as Hindus and Muslims clashed violently in a city where they had been merging for many years, law and order collapsed, and the police were paralyzed and complicit.
Although officials described the riots as clashes between supporters and opponents of the Nationality Law, at the end of the day it became quite clear that it was Muslims who were terrorized primarily in an organized and deliberate manner.
And the author added that she herself received dozens of messages from strangers calling for interference, after raging mobs began identifying the homes of Muslims, and forced them into to take them out of them by force.
Dutt criticized the police for standing by and did not interfere, and pointed to a clear institutional collapse despite the injury of more than fifty policemen and the killing of one of the officers.
She added that the Prime Minister did not address the riots directly yesterday, and that when Trump was asked during a conference about violence and the citizenship law only alluded to this issue, saying that he had discussed religious freedom at length with Modi, whom he described as "amazing" and "worked very hard" to ensure it.
She considered the brief words from Trump, his unofficial tone and the silence of officials in the Indian government a threat, in light of the increasing number of deaths, but it seems that they do not feel this danger.