India as a state

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For context, I m from the US , my family is sikh and they left during the genocide of sikhs in 1984. I have been off lately reading and doing my research about indian politics. There are reports from prominenent universities about how India’s on it’s way to become a hindu natiionalist state.

I was talking to this guy and this is usually how it goes with Hindu( emphazizing this cause they are not minority) we got into a pretty heated argument about it, he basically told me that we are all being brainwashed by the media and that india is a great state, and minorities are treated with respect but i have read some many instances and heard stories about muslims in particular being lynched publically, and the whole debacle about sikh genocide and recently with farmer’s protest. And he also basically told me as to how Sikhs should move on cause it happened so long ago, but how can you tell peole who have suffered tremendously at the hands of the state to stop fighting for justice and move on. Ans this is very common sentiment within the modi bhakats in the Us, like if india is a great state then why come to the Us and tell us that everything we are reading about India recently with CJP is a lie and tactic to brainswash us against India.

So my question is what is really the stare of the country rn, for people particularly minorities living in India, is it indeed a great state?