Now right-wing calls for the country to be declared a Hindu nation and Hindu supremacy to be enshrined in law are growing rapidly louder, making its 210-million-odd Muslims increasingly anxious about their future. 'Growing schism'That shift is a boon to those who want to see India declared a Hindu nation, such as the right-wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad organisation. "We're a Hindu nation because India's identity is Hindu," its leader Surendra Jain told AFP. And his actions, they say, enable calls for a Hindu nation without explicitly endorsing them. Nasir Jamal Khan, 52, caretaker of a Varanasi mosque, said there was a "sense of growing schism" even though "our forefathers were born here".

Source: The Nation August 13, 2022 04:24 UTC