Out of respect for the rules of this board with regard to the discussion of politics, I will, of course, refrain from commenting on the allegations against the BJP (including perjorative epithets).
However, the 'article' is riddled with such nonsense as
As a result, India's earthquake prediction systems were steered away from scientific method towards 'Vedic' practices. Ignoring, for the moment, the veracity of the statemnt (for which the author provides no support), I was unware that there were any 'scientific' methods for predicting earthquakes.
The author also spews this
This injection of multiculturalism and relativism into science has not done any harm to privileged Westerners, who revert to real medicine the moment they get seriously ill. I guess being a playwright, columnist, journalist and friend of the likes of Chrissy Hitchens means an ignorance of the source of drugs such oncovin or why firms such Eli Lilly, W. R. Grace, Cargill all have investments in neem farms in India.
I have no doubt that superstition can impede science, however, political hatchet jobs such this certainly don't further science.