No Difference, Just Look in the Mirror
Santosh Desai wrote that BJP chief, Amit Shah, horrified him when he declared that the BJP would “act against all infiltrators who were not Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist”. Why not just all infiltrators, why base it on religion, asks Desai. A valid question, no doubt. Desai worries most about the BJP supporters who don’t support any religion based actions and laws. Why? Because if you bring up topics like lynching or Shah’s comment with them, it’s like water off a duck: “If the subject is forced upon them, it is either made little of (you know how media today pounces on any and every little incident), dismissed as marginal (every party has lunatics, can’t take them seriously), presented as the norm (these things have always happened in the country, but now people with agendas amplify them), attributed to electoral compulsions (in order to win elections, they have to say all kinds of things, they don’t really mean it), sidestepped (after all every option comes with a downside- we d...