By Muslim Mirror Staff
New Delhi: The Asian Age removed an article by veteran journalist Karan Thapar soon after publishing it. Thapar was informed that the decision was taken due to the last three paragraphs of his article as it highlighted the violence against Muslims in Jammu in 1947.
Speaking to the Wire, Thapar said that he was informed by the national daily’s managing editor Kaushik Mitter that the daily’s owner has instructed him to put his column “on hold”. Mitter explicitly told him that the owners of the daily feared a backlash for the last three paragraphs of the column.
Highlighting the violence against Jammu Muslims in 1947, he wrote, the incidents changed Jammu from Muslim-majority to a Hindu-majority city. To support his claims, he has cited many sources in the column.
In the column, he also claimed that the celebration of August 14 as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ was aimed to increase anti-Muslim sentiment in India.
Quoting Armistice Day in Britain, Holocaust Day in Israel, Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, and even Thanksgiving Day in America, he alleged that these days are intended to unite people whereas the aim of the partition day was to polarize Indians on religious lines.