Tathagata Roy

"For the Hindus there were relatively good times, like the first five years of the republic, average times like the period of Awami League rule in the late nineties up to September 2001, and the brief rule, in 1991, of temporary President, Mr. Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed. There were bad times like the period of Ziaur Rahman’s, or his widow Khaleda Zia’s rule, or Ershad’s rule around the time when he declared Islam to be the state religion. And there were horrible, abysmal, worse-than-Pakistani times like the period when there was a Writ Petition filed in the Calcutta High Court against the Qur’an, when the disputed structure in Ayodhya, often referred to as the Babri Mosque of Ayodhya, India, was demolished by Hindus, and after Khaleda’s Bangladesh National Party (BNP)-led coalition came to power in October 2001."

"[S]he (Taslima Nasrin) cites as many as 145 instances of persecution of Hindus in present- day Bangladesh, taking care to mention the precise location where the act was perpetrated, in terms of Zilla, Upazilla and Gram (respectively district, sub-district and village). These are mostly instances of small-scale, localised persecution, quite apart from the type of countrywide atrocities that took place in October 1990 and again in December 1992."

"When Rajiv Gandhi visited Nepal,Sonia Gandhi was not allowed into Pashupatinath Temple because she is Xtian. Even the King could not help. Rajiv imposed a blockade on Nepal to avenge this ‘slight’. This was the point when Nepal began to turn against India."