Together with this, we have other fables being fed to us. That Narendra Modi does not sleep at night, he just spends 24 hours working. And that in close competition to him, Yogi Adityanath will also spend more time working and not sleeping. India will be run by these supermen, and we the subjects must remain in abject awe.
As things stand now, there is no light, there is just a never-ending tunnel. The BJP-RSS’s enormous support base cannot or will not see that even as attacks on their “enemies” — not just Muslims, but also other religious minorities, Dalits, women, academics, anyone who is not one of them – continue, the state of India as a progressive, successful, developing democracy has come to a complete halt.
We move backwards on every measurable scale whether economic or developmental.
How far will hatred take us before we wake up?
(The author is a senior journalist. Views are personal)