The growing radicalisation of Hindus threatens the Indian republic and the Constitution – By Samar Halarnkar
Majoritarian visions, now openly expressed, empowered and normalised as reality, are the armoury from which India’s ruling party fashions its arsenal of Hindu supremacist behavior, from the assaults on India’s universities to using a raft of laws, new and old, against Muslims.
There are more than a billion Hindus in India, and it is not my case that they are all radicalised, dangerous fanatics. The fundamentalists among the Hindus may not even be a majority. But they are more than they were, and they hold the key to determining the course India will take.…
The rest of India has not entirely been levelled by the rising storm of Hindu radicalisation. Indeed, it has sparked a rediscovery and reclamation of the flag, the Constitution and poetry of resistance from the younger, violent days of the republic’s birth.… That is why a war for the soul of India rages on the streets, in universities, homes, families and WhatsApp groups.…
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https://www.arre.co.in/social-commentary/students-government-greatest-opposition-caa-nrc-jnu-jamia/
