India may not be anywhere close to China when it comes to mind-boggling infrastructure and technological advances but on one parameter, China is just like us — Chinese trolls can give their Indian counterparts a run for their money. Online hate is currently being directed towards a 54-year-old school bus attendant who lost her life last week while saving a busload of children from a knife-wielding assailant. Yet, the attendant has become reviled as a traitor and a spy because the victims were Japanese, and the bus was ferrying Japanese children home from their Japanese school. Imagine all this being done in India for someone who gave her life to save Pakistani children from an Indian assailant. The simple explanation — the fact that the government does not permit schools run by expats to admit Chinese children — is deliberately ignored.

Source: The Telegraph July 05, 2024 12:59 UTC