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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/you-wont-find-a-braver-man-the-muslim-witness-confronting-indias-legal-labyrinth-nisar-ahmed
1. The horrific atrocities against Hindus in Pakistan.
2. The non-punishment of Jagdish Tytler for the 84 Sikh riots (made a Union Minister in later governments) and Rahul Gandhi's silence about it.
Asking for a friend.
1. Apparently yes, there are several such articles but you could have bothered doing that quick search yourself: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/pakistan-deploys-paramilitary-in-punjab-after-muslim-mob-attacks-hindu-temple
Interestingly, Pakistan's PM swiftly condemned the police's alleged inaction in that mob attack...
2. Well, it's a foreign newspaper, shouldn't it be writing about things that happened recently or that concern who is currently governing the world's largest democracy rather than obsessing about an opposition politician and the family's legacy?
Do you have some intelligent views to share on what you make of the article? Do you think politicians and police had no hand to play in encouraging or potentially inciting or supporting the Delhi riots? And do you think many / any of those allegedly at fault for the murders and assaults will see justice?
The point is that there is a systemic problem with India's legal and criminal justice system. There is no giant conspiracy against XYZ community. Instead of obsessing over identity politics, this paper should scientifically examine the problem. The answer lies in lack of funding for the judicial system, judicial backlog, lack of quality legal education, low talent in the legal profession, opaque judicial appointments that are not based on merit etc.
The writer of the piece should have done proper research and looked at various reports on the issue plaguing the justice system, going back to the reports of the Malimath Committee, the Constitution Review Commission and various Law Commission reports.
We live in an age where the left rejects logic, empiricism and rationality in favour of woke dogma and identity politics. This article exemplifies it.
Similary, the current dispensation has very rarely, if ever, condemned such violence against the Muslim community, and in some cases actively or covertly encouraged it. Furthermore, a strong Islamophobic agenda is very much core of their manifesto, as lots of party officials have repeatedly made clear.
Therefore, it is entirely logical, empirical and rational for a international newspaper to focus on these riots and the difficulty in getting justice (and without writing a deep-dive academic treatise of the cause of judicial delays in India).