Donald Trump’s visit to India criticized

This 25 February 2020 video says about itself:

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is coming under fire for spending $18 million to host US President Donald Trump. Our collaborator Navodita Kumari brings us the details.

Trump hails Modi as his supporters engulf Delhi in communal violence: here.

As Trump embraces Modi, communal violence convulses India’s capital: here.

INDIA’S WORST SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN DECADES Tuesday was the third consecutive night of deadly communal clashes in the capital between Hindus and minority Muslims over a divisive new citizenship law. More than 30 people have been killed since riots broke out on Sunday, according to a hospital spokesperson. It is the worst sectarian violence Delhi has seen in decades. [CNN]

Amid An Anti-Muslim Pogrom In India, A Search For Any Concern At CPAC. As news stories emerged from New Delhi on Thursday evening, all offering proof of an appalling anti-Muslim pogrom there, 50 or so American conservatives, many in red “Make America Great Again” hats, filed into a windowless hotel conference room in suburban Maryland to watch a panel discussion called “Without Religious Freedom, What’s Left?”: here.

HOW DELHI’S POLICE TURNED AGAINST MUSLIMS More evidence is emerging that the Delhi police, who are under the direct command of Indian president Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and have very few Muslim officers, concertedly moved against Muslims and at times actively helped the Hindu mobs that rampaged in New Delhi in late February, burning down Muslim homes and targeting Muslim families. [New York Times]