“If we, those who remain, don’t unite, you can imagine what will happen to us,” he says, as children play in the sand. The rampant communally charged rhetoric unleashed a series of visible incidents in the State, not particularly known for such hate politics. Everyday casual hate and bigotry performs the same role, be it in Nazi Germany or New India. Also Read | How Hindutva pop music is giving hate a soundtrackSuch popular culture makes hate a constant, daily affair. With 2024 only a few days away, dark clouds have begun to hover over the remaining vestiges of India’s secular state.

Source: The Hindu December 28, 2023 23:05 UTC