The court says that a Hindu mob broke the law when it demolished a 500-year-old mosque – but Hindus can now build a temple there anyway. This isn’t the end of the matter.
The people accepted electoral authoritarianism for their security. This neutralised warnings by intellectuals and opposition parties that Modi’s India was heading towards fascism.
TV anchor Ravish Kumar, a kill-joy and not a theatre-lover, dislikes the very sight of a Nero fiddling and has run a one-man campaign against the infantilization of India.
The level of sectarianism was kept under restraint before, because never before did a sectarian political party achieve such overwhelming political power.
The Science
Congress and Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), held in India every January, are
the largest events of their kind in the world. This year a curious kind of osmosis took
place.
It was not always like this. Hinduism neutralised
competing elements by absorbing them. This faith tradition was strong enough to
let internal theological differences and dissent be aired.
