"When Hindus are killed, the story must always be reframed - not as religious persecution or ideological terror, but as a part of some nebulous, ongoing "tension",.. The victim's are quietly transformed into faceless statistics, stripped of religion, identity and dignity; the perpetrators are softly described as "unknown assailants" or "radicals with grievances", and terrorism itself is neutered into a regrettable but unavoidable "incident"..... it is bias - deliberate and sustained - the kind that recasts murderers into misunderstood actors in a conflict too complex for moral clarity, and victim's into inconvenient footnotes. In the global newsroom's carefully maintained hierarchy of grief, Hindu lives occupy a peculiar space : simultaneously too privileged to be mourned and too politically awkward to be acknowledged. If 26 Jews had been murdered in Paris or 26 Christians had been slaughtered on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka or 26 LGBTQ club-goers had been gunned down in Orlando, there would have been no hesitation in calling it terrorism; the candles would have been lit, the headlines would have screamed, and the op-eds would have poured in, demanding justice, vengeance and global soul-searching.... But when Hindus are massacred, they are quietly demoted to statistics; they are flattened into "tensions", buried under euphemisms, and met with the kind of silence that speaks louder than any headline."