India is following Israeli model. They have very strong lobby in United States too. Sites like national interests etc are recieving indirect pay from India. After recent occupied Kashmir move they paid tons to improve their image and paint Kashmiris with terrorism brush. India got very very lucky after American War in Afghanistan. While pakistan economy and security was shattered, India used that opportunity to paint Pakistan and Kashmir as terrorists.
I think both Pakistani and Bangladeshi administrations (ours by plain bias at the top) have lost the opportunity to do the opposite, meaning improve our image. If you ask the average American, they don't have a clear image of India, but they don't have a negative one, which is true of both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Bangladesh because of floods and famine (the image persists) and Pakistan for terrorism. No Americans know about the positive things happening in our two countries.
We need to make damn sure that,
1. The H1B Sanghi onslaught is slowed, if not halted altogether. Now is an opportune time. If these backoffice companies are so great, why don't they follow US HR hiring standards, where Muslims are nowhere to be found. There should be a strong effort to expose these backoffice companies and how they (and their employees) are supporting the Modi Govt. The backoffice cashflow to their govt. needs to be stopped.
2. We hire some strong lobbyists from both govts. in the EU/US to work on our respective images in regular as well as social media. We Pakistanis and Bangladeshi neglect this while this is the number one prerogative of Sanghis. H1B Sanghis need to be identified on social media and kicked out of the country on account of Visa rules. Any American Visa given prohibits race/religion based bias.
We should stop bickering about 1971 and get to the work of spreading the word on social media on what a horrible divisive racist mess Modi's administration already is and how it is shaping up to be Nazi Germany 2.0.
You can take a look at Mark Tully's expose on how Modi Govt. is muzzling the free press in India.
https://thewire.in/media/indian-media-freedom-mark-tully
'Shakha' means 'branch' in most Eastern Indian languages (including Bengali). We in Bangladesh typically use it to mean branch offices of banks.
RSS (an Indian Hindu religious hate organization) has branch offices in almost every locality in India (around 44,000 in total) - which are typically called 'Shakhas'. They contain (depending on location) Hindu temples, classrooms, libraries, administrative offices etc.
Most Shakhas have large grounds on which to conduct group exercise, arms training and yoga and above all indoctrinate youth in hate to become 'Sanghis'.
Sanghis are members of the 'Rashtriya Shyamsevak
Sangh' or 'National Organization dedicated to Shyam' - Shyam being one of their many Hindu Gods, another name for Krishna). Some shakhas contain dormitories. Shakhas are nothing but places to indoctrinate Hindu people to hate Muslims and essentially are zealot factories, just like the brown shirt movement in Nazi Germany.
https://www.indiatoday.in/elections...p-shakhas-sangh-siksha-varg-190340-2014-04-25