New Delhi, Jan. 17 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government may have had the intention of providing refuge to victims of religious persecution through the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) but it could not get the message across abroad - or for that matter in India. It seems to have the same problem at home, where the narrative has been seized across vast swathes of the media and the nation by those opposed to the law perhaps because of the Hinducentric emphasis on the presentation and the perception. And they, in turn, are defining how it is perceived abroad.
The controversial aspect of the CAA is so similar to a piece of legislation in the United States known as the Specter Amendment that it would seem that it was the model of the BJ...