To know why, it is worth recalling what else these publications had to say about Hindus, Hinduism, and India in the last few years, before they took up their outraged positions on behalf of India's supposedly vanishing secularism.
Great names flit across the pages; great stories, too, about the astonishing variety of human speech and the riches of even the most supposedly primitive, vanishing languages.
In 1984, Van Allsburg published a collection of fourteen eerie drawings, supposedly the work of a vanished illustrator who left behind only enigmatic captions and titles.
(Clark, according to the prosecution, had tried a similar trick with postcards supposedly signed by Linda Sohus, the victim's vanished wife, which he somehow had forwarded from Paris).
During the 1930s, supposedly a far more upright age, 8.8m books vanished from the library system every year.
The convictions supposedly animating the crude campaign against the BBC vanished the moment it agreed to a commercial partnership with Murdoch.
When Rajesh received news of a successful performance on his college exams, he vanished, elated, on a two-night excursion, supposedly "exercising" at a wrestling camp.
"According to his letters, Galvão replaced some of the weakest animals and gave him a dog — Tupi, I think its name was — which supposedly returned to the farm, several months after Fawcett vanished".
Ms Power, supposedly at the forefront of US decision-making on Syria, vanished, it was claimed, after tweeting an outraged reaction to the chemical weapons attack on civilians in the outskirts of Damascus.
