In the first episode of 'Viewpoint'—a weekly podcast by our columnists where you can listen to their latest columns—Congress MP Shashi Tharoor talks about the need to enact a national asylum law in the backdrop of the expulsion to Myanmar of two batches of Rohingya refugees.
He says, with this move, the Union government has betrayed India’s traditions of hospitality to strangers.
Here's what Tharoor has to say further.
