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How smartly Shekhar Gupta is manipulating mass conversation of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh

This is the same guy who said muslim growth is healthy!

Millions of Muslim migrants from Bangladesh came over the last 60 years

Gupta has come to defend his Muslim brothers.

Sekhar Gupta interpreting the data to fit his own agenda this time.

Minority going up is a good sign, says SG....I don't buy this narrative...

‪The sum total of the report is that in Muslim countries the majority has further increased and in non- Muslim countries the minorities have increased. Period. ‬

"If we Abdul Kalams are increasing - that's a WOW but if its Hijabis and 7th century return ticket seekers than we are heading into a dark abyss."

They got their share in 1947 divided, now again they will ask. WB is gone ...Kerala gone, Kashmir gone...

The higher the Muslim population gets the more danger the country gets into Just look at Nigeria There needs to be a more organised Ghar Wapsi program by the Hindu community You can’t depend on the govt

This is the worst cut the clutter episode ever. It could very well be named Causation Correlation fallacy. I challenge SG to put these arguments to the test in a debate. Any decent debator will leave you absolutely embarrassed.

If we Hindus do not wake up even now, when will we?????

The % of christians in India is possibly much higher. There are too many crypto christians around.

So RSS has been right all along; we were just waiting for a “gora” approved report to accept it.

Your analysis have no depth.

15:30 I remember when Mr. Gupta twisted himself into a pretzel to say that Muslim population % increase is a MYTH. This is not just true in India, but it is so across the world!! #EggOnFace 21:04 You have to give it to GuptaJi... he reads the statistics accurately, and then comes to these absurd conclusions and presents them with such conviction! Lutyens media at its finest! 👌🙌👏 🙄

The share of majority in OECD countries has gone down because of immigration. How can you compare them directly with India?

Gupta, you are a tool, while tools are extremely useful, you can talk for yourself. Prof Ravi in multiple interviews very specifically mentioned that this is NOT explained SOLELY By TFR (fertility rate). She said we had to do more analysis to find out what the drivers are for the decline in Hindu population and 43% increase in Muslim population in the same period. She pointed out very clearly that the decline of minority population in our neighborhood including Pakistan is ALARMING. stop the narrative peddling. The point is that at this rate, we will be Pakistan, BD or other countries in the neighborhood in about 150 years or so, where minorities had to flee for their lives. Hindus of India will be in that category. No amount of sophistry or data torture or "secular" appeasement is going to hide that trend. The fact it took 20-30 yrs after the 50 yr mark for someone to assemble the trends is telling.

Shekhar gupta you stand exposed here... pls call a spade a spade... tell us how the mix of religions has changed across the world I the last 50 years

The problem is not that hindu population is decreasing but that Muslim population is increasing.And historically the moment Muslims become more than 30 percent they start their political bs and want sharia law . That's why they divided the country and the ones still living in the country still wants sharia .Now they don't want sharia in criminal cases but want sharia in personal laws like inheritance, divorce, etc.This tendency of Muslims always shows up when they become the majority and then the infidels will have to pay jijya.Hindus are kind of paying Jijya right now ,HR & CE Act is applied only on hindus and money from hindu religious institutions are given to minorities.Mockery if hindu religion and festivals is celebrated and mockery of Islam becomes Islamophobia.Now ,its not me that said "Bahut dar ka mahaul hai" or that Muslims are being persecuted in India .This is the general rhetoric of Ravish ,Dhruv and other members of their ilk- Muslims are being persecuted.Hindus are also asking for this type of persecution where population increases instead of decreasing.BTW if anyone thinks that what I have written is also an example of anti Muslim bigotry and persecution of Muslims,then I suggest they start their replies by first asking to bring MR & CE Act for Muslim institutions and then we can talk.

North Vs South is not polarization, Caste Vs Caste is not polarization but dare you say truth about Muslim and its polarization

The difference is the western countries don't have large portion of just one minority as we have in India. They bring in talented people from all around the world which has lead to the development of those countries, not just because minority population is increasing but because of the talent they bring in. So blindly saying increase in minority population is good for the country is incorrect. In india We need policies to curb cast system first for better integration of large part of the society, focus on agriculture, science and technology.

You just forgot, in Nepal the Hindu population also gone down

In Western countries the main reason is leaving religion to atheism and refugees/immigration, you can't compare that to India!

"mUsAlMaN kHaTrEy mAiN hAiN"

The question is, why only one minority saw such an exponential increase? And why such a radical change in proportion by one group? Before partion Muslim's population share in India was around 18.5%, after partition it went down to 9%, after 75years again their share goes upto 17%, Muslims are back to their pre-partition share which is probably around 17% -18%(the current population data yet to be released). This such an alarming news for the Nation which has seen brutal partition because of that particular so-called minority🇵🇰.

Muslims: 43% increase in population Also Muslims: “Here, please acknowledge my victim card!”

Musalmano ki abaadi 1951 me 3.2 crore se badh kar 2011 me 17.8 crore ho gayi, karib 6 guna. Hinduo ki abaadi 30.5 crore se badh kar 96.6 crore hui yaahi 3 guna itne hi samay me. Inhone hamesha se Jansankhya Jihad chala rakha hai jo samay aane pe gazwa e hind karenge

OCED countries majority drop is due to immigration not because of peaceful religion

M sure secular Hindus must be celebrating this rise in multiculturalism and secunlarism!

worst and irrelevant analysis, entirely out of context.

Shekhar surprised that you are not seeing the alarm. Wow

Buddhists have gone up because sikkim joined India in the early 70s

Desh mein Ghar wapsi ki zaroorat hai.

Hi Shekhar, Minorities going up..how can this be a good or bad sign. Ideally, we should maintain the ratio, so that demographic changes don’t take place. You can’t compare OECD countries with India, given India’s bitter past with religious division in 1947, it is an emotional issue and hence the reaction and fear is expected.

26:21 - with all these statistics SG has tried very hard to explain that Bangladeshi Muslims have not come in India, but Bangladeshi Hindus did. Please riddle me this then: When so many Hindus from Bangladesh and Pakistan have been migrating to India from 1950 till 2024, why has minority population share still increased in India? Then the logic of BJP makes sense, 4 biwi 24 bachche?

Bullshit is at its peak to paint the opposite picture.

Shekhar, if OECD countries were so beholden to minorities for their development, why is there a rise in right wing leaders in many of these countries which oppose immigration? Why is the PM of England sending away migrants on planes? Why are Netherlands and Italy electing right wing leaders? How come the first minister of Scotland had the shortest tenure in history? Is this not against your "rise in minorities is good news" narrative? Please declutter with some stats here.

an intellectually dishonest way of presenting data.

The most important question one should ask is: What do verses like 4.56, 9.29, 98.6, etc., from the Qur'an say?

Hard core islam is an issue everywhere irrespective of their population. More the numbers more will be the problems. Living in Kerala with more than 30% muslims I know how state is being run now and who runs the show and it's impact on public life. Add to that number of illegal immigrants finding protective shelter in state due to Congress CPM politics. Report or no report situation is grim and more so for others in muslim majority areas. It's a fact Mr Sekhar Gupta and no white washing will do.

Great video...although I fail to understand why increase in minority % share is being seen as good by both SG and the author. Obviously declining population (in absolutes not %) would mean exodus or genocide and that's bad, but increase in the % would indicate in countries like India that social and economic indicators were not improving as well for these minorities. How can that be a good thing? And regarding increased share due to immigration, that is also imo not a long term good. Most crime and social statistics in these countries show that multiculturalism has failed and while it leads to increase in indicators like GDP, its misleading as there's actually decrease in per capita indicators and wages especially with the low skilled worker as its their jobs that go to the low skilled immigrants that out compete them with lower wages. As for the supposed benefits of multiculturalism, a small minority of assimilated immigrants would give you things like a Chinese restaurant while unrestricted immigration will give you entire China towns in the middle of your cities which I don't believe is good for any country. As for the very high skilled immigrants like many Indians in countries like USA, they are so few in population that they would not cause any demographic changes, and in their case its actually bad for countries like India, which sees a lot of brain drain. Its shameful that we are not able to keep our most important asset in our country, in fact we celebrate exporting our brightest minds to countries like US in exchange for remittances which are chump change compared to how much they could have contributed to India if we had given them better opportunities and pay for their talents. Sorry for the rant.

Just dream about Ganga jamuni sankranti 😅

It is definitely to be worried for future generations.Immigirations should be stopped.Two child norms and single wife should be made compulsory for muslims

" India has continued its civilisational tradition of harbouring persecuted populations from several countries " How come Islam and Christianity are persecuted when they are the prosecutors of native faiths of India and World at large are clubbed with persecuted this is really unfair towards really persecuted religions like Parsis and jews importantly so sanatana dharama (hinduism) it's various folds

Shekhar, while it might be true that three waves of Hindu migration might have contributed to the decrease Hindu population in Bangladesh, what explains the decrease in Hindu population since 1971? Why can't the same happen in India. Quoting statistics when it helps your narrative and totally ignoring stats when it does not. Also, Shekhar becomes exceedingly worried that decrease in Hindu population in Pakistan from 13% to 2% is misleading and tries his best to blame Bangladesh for the decrease in Hindu minority.

It is mostly due to migration especially from Bangladesh, tfr of even Muslims is stabilising,

I am voting for Modi, only in hope that they will pass Uniform civil code bill in the parliament and next pass population control bill. Call us Islamophobes, fascists or whatever, but what Modi said is true. All the so called secular, liberal parties' socialist policies will mostly benefit one particular community who least likely practice family planning procedures.

Bhakt can't see reason. Now Mahesh and Ramesh will comment 😂😂

Approx 70000 children are born in India every day. Of these, 35000 are Muslim children and Around 30000 are Hindus children & balance of other religions. That means the higher birth rate of Muslims vs Hindus is contributing to higher population % of Muslims. Simple maths says, this can make India, Muslim majority in the long haul. As far as new Borns are concerned, Muslims are the majority and Hindus are the minority among the children born now. At this rate, Muslims will be the majority in India by 2070. No one can stop India from becoming a Muslim country, unless 2 or 3 child policy (same children in Muslims as in Hindus) is strictly implemented.

Why should anyone tolerate change in population demographics even by 1% through malpractice? Article 370 spl provisions for not changing population demographics, so wr Muslims are majority for them their numbers are important? From 1947 what has already happened is acceptable?

Abrahamic religions have finished Persian culture, Sumerian culture, Egyptian culture, greek culture, Norse and many others....it has been happening for past 2000+ years. Trend still continues... Hinduism is somehow still surviving....it is a factual history and current macro trend as well. When you don't accept that, then all these efforts are required

sekhar sir... why is minority percentage growing should be a good thing? why can't, it should be in the same proportion? ( i understand 1 - 2 percent change)? why should, from India's and your standpoint, Majority (hindu) reducing by 6 percent or more is a good thing (u did not make this statement, but, u made minority increase is a good thing). Also... Hindu's from Pak or Bangladesh moved to India and still HIndu's reduced - is it a part to be worried?

Sekhar come on ... Put on your neutral coat on top of your congress dress ... The underlying congress aupporter is osszing out ... Muslim population going up then it is polarisation... What nonsesnse as usual... Also what happens in other countries is also Indians and Indian govt fault ...

None of your analysis and interpretation makes sense. You are sticking your preconceived ideas on data which is saying something totally different!! With Basic intelligence anyone can tell the story is really different than how you are reading it

I still love your delightful use of Hindi interventions, a perfect national language class for us South Indians

If still we Hindus 🕉️ do not wake up and smell the reality, we will be no more... It's a scary reality... I can't imagine my son or grandson living in islamic Hidustan...

Increase in minority which believe in medievel period aint good thing for our india We cant compare our nation to US which was made by immigrants. Even they are resilient now for particular group.

Let us open our borders and allow more Muslims to come. This way Muslims will thrive more and India will become role model and oasis of peace. Isn’t it Mr. Gupta? Kudos to you and the author of this report.

Issue is not majority population v/s minority population. Real issue is population rise of Muslims v/s population decline of non-muslims. Liberals will say this has nothing to do with religion, it is because of backwardness and lack of womeneducation. Sekhar Gupta should make cut the clutter on reasons for backwardness of muslims and status of women in Muslim society

I think we also need to consider the rise of the irreligious. Religion is in decline everywhere but in some countries you are forced to accept a religious identity.

In his 10 years rule, modi did nothing to kick out illegal immigrants from India fearing backlash from his owners in Arabia😂😂

Abu Dawud (2050) narrated that Ma’qil ibn Yasar said: A man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and said, “I have found a woman who is of good lineage and is beautiful, but she does not bear children. Should I marry her?” He said, “No.” Then he came again with the same question and he told him not to marry her. Then he came a third time with the same question and he said: “Marry those who are loving and fertile, for I will be proud of your great numbers before the other nations.” (Classed as sahih by al-Albani in Irwa al-Ghalil, 1784).

Shekar Gupta should be proud of this actually he must take credit openly because along with other left leaning journalists in india for the past 30 years his propaganda on communities, religion and minorities rights has worked well and the numbers are proof… it’s a great achievement for him 👍

in 2001 Hindu population percentage was 80.45, and according to 2011 census Hindu population was 79.8 after removing certain tribal religions from Hinduism 0.65 decrease in 10 years, in 2015 it's 78.06? 1.74 % decrease in 4 years? something does not make sense. the muslim population increase is alarming that being said, illegal immigration definitely at play here, that's why census is of utmost importance.

What extraordinary pains you take to explain away things that do not stand upto common sense. Tonight when you go to sleep please consider Sekhar, do you sincerely believe in your own explanation in the video?

I don't really understand this reasoning at population growth from the lens of religion and caste. Don't compare it with just caste/religion, rather compare it with a combined socio-economic indicator. Also the timing of this report makes it very suspicious, questioning the authenticity and bias of the authors

I came here to cut the clutter but leave with more cluttered mind 😂😂

How it isn't alarming? In a village of 20 Hindus and 20 muslims. Next generation has 19 Hindus and 23 muslims. So in a village of 40 muslims and 160 Hindus next generation will have 46 Muslims and 152 Hindus Which is more than 30%. And this is just 1 generation. So it will take muslim population to reach from 20 to 30 in just 1 generation. Don't play it down Shekhar. And 30 means another partition and another civil war.

Wrong interpretation and miss leading description

#22:43 Sekhar ji, dont you think you are misleading people here. CAA talks about what to do about people who came into India post 2014 Dec 31. Why do you muddle up things! Why bring up 1971 and that too Hindus who came from Bangladesh. Un-necessary. You may think India is not getting flooded by muslims. Thats your point of view. But the reality is there has been an increase in Muslim population and Hindus have acted responsibly by reducing the population (despite NATIONAL characters like Lallu!). Given credit to the Hindus! This is also a wake up call for Indian Muslims and act with prudence.

Shekar seems to be a great advocate for Bangladesh. Bangladesh Hindu population according to their 2013 census was ~8.9% and according to 2022 census it is ~7.7%. And you clearly stated the majority population in Bangladesh saw no decline. The difference in Hindu population between the two census numbers is ~20 lakhs, and we haven't got 20 lakh Hindu migrant applications from Bangladesh. Why qualify the Hindu population decline with reasons unbacked by data?

Why are you holding a brief for one community.... You are trying to build a biased narrative....say for example... Sometimes you explain the decrease or increase in percentage points in terms of absolute percentage and vice versa .. etc

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The amount of mental gymnastics Mr. Gupta has done to explain a simple report, would have fetched us at least one gold medal at olympics.

Muslim growth rate peaked in 1981-91 While that of Hindus peaked in 1961-71 Fertility rate of Muslims according to the latest NFHS data is 2.34 while that of Hindus is 1.94 2005-6 NFHS data shows that fertility rate of Hindus was at 2.4 Hence Muslims are 15-20 years Behind Hindus in terms of demographic change and stabilisation

All BJP's election campaigns revolve around three "M"s: 1- Muslim 2- Mandir 3- Modi I don't how it can bring prosperity to Indians, especially its majority Hindus....!

Nice Explanation and Knowledgeable episode. Rising minorities is a good sign for our country.

आप का सहयोग गजवा E हिंद में देते रहो !! ठंडा पानी डालो ! ये भी सहयोग है !!

What BJP done in past 10 years ? Nothing to Hindus,Muslims& Christians. Panel Report 2015 now circulate.Current need of nation is employment, Education, Equality, Non-stop Electricity, water, food, dress, shelter etc. But, day by day BJP create communal tension and create low thinking ability to voters in election 2024. Hindu population reduced because of BJP Ideology. Star compainor remark recently about more childrens. If frequently criticise population, most of married couples will become Sanyasham. Unmarried youth will beacome Brahmacharya. Hunters are more in global. But, still pet animals live peacefully at home. If house owner ( Ruling party ) is good everything is peaceful. Avoid political blammer, live happily with family and friends.

Its no brainer why this vague report is published now .

unfortunately The Print is in minority to take this report objectively, if we have to say. Please see the expert comments on other channels, persons like Mr Sai Deepak and see where it is all leading. This is perhaps a perfected way of opening these alarms vehemently in the guise of research reports and it has become order of the day.

Is having different views and pursuing it vigorously views polarization? Just asking

The Hindu majority has not been alarmist without justification, unlike your previous comments on population and demographics. And please note this research is upto 2015 only.

there Is an argument that minority population from Pak/Bangladesh moved to India and that is why there is a drastic of reduction there. In that case, majority population increases at base level In India and the decline becomes steeper. And the reverse for minority population.

Tell us who is Shamika Ravi's father - TN Governor Ravindra Narayana Ravi

SG You are at it again By the way you don’t need any data you can see it around you Remember Indonesia in one generation it has become the largest Muslim country But nothing is going to come out of this report Our politicians including BJP is not going to do anything about it

How does this fit with the work of EAC?

What can be an in principle argument when PMO brings out such kind of reports, but does not support caste based census if better policy making is the end goal?

In order to be politically correct, Sekhar Gupta misses (intentionally) most of the serious nuances for India.

Gupta ji is ready to defend his brothers 😂😂😂

Instead of explaining her report talk of Hindu and Muslim demographics in INDIA you created CLUTTER

Sehkar always uses absolutes or percentages whenever it suits him. In trying to justify the liberal agenda (Print should stop calling itself unbiased) some pertinent points. As part of the narrative the minority population in Pakistan and Bangladesh reduced because Hindus migrated in millions from both those countries to India. But still the percentage of Muslim population increased while the Hindu population reduced. So in absolute terms even the mass migration of Hindus which came in could not offset the massive increase in Muslim population. Even after migration the percentage of Hindus reduced whereas the percentage of Muslims increased. Did Shekhar try to explain this paradox ? Absolutely Not as it does not align with the agenda. Also all OECD countries are facing a backlash against unchecked migration which has increased crime rate resulting in politicians with radical agendas succeeding in the polls. So if you look at statistics if the minority population increase in these countries it also shows a corresponding increase in crime and users being on public welfare which is causing all these right wing backlash. Is it too much to expect a supposedly Neutral Print to analyze objectively.

We should also initiate a study to see the contribution towards direct and indirect taxes from the majority and the minority groups.

Reduced at least 8 crores of Hindus and not to be paranoid about

Unable to open the original report

18:46 Oh!!! Isn't the gap between Hindu and Muslim populations narrowing down? SG Sir, you do provide smokescreen... You are a master at that.

Why the number of hindu population in bangladesh (23%) and Pakistan (13.5%) are different in 1950 if they are same country. Shekhar made a point while explaining decrease in minority population in Pakistan even though it’s not the same number. It’s interesting to see how they come up with different numbers.

Partition of Punjab was a hell but it settled down from there onwards as there was exchange of population. In case of Bengal this never happened. And here the difference in treatment of minorities becomes most apparent. Minorities kept leaving East Pakistan but comparatively much fewer minorities from India went there. This trend didn't change even after creation of Bangladesh though the rate of change and extent of minority oppression has significantly reduced. East Pakistan and Bangladesh border is like a crack in the roof. Water keeps seeping in even though flooding is never detected.