She was all too familiar with the frequent news stories about interfaith couples being targeted in Karnataka, which is governed by Modi’s party. “I was unsettled because I knew how it could end,” Shaikh said on a recent afternoon at her modest home. She tried to persuade Mullah to end the relationship, but he refused. Meanwhile Kumbhar’s family was aghast. First they came from Kumbhar’s family, then from members of the hard-line Hindu nationalist group Sri Ram Sena Hindustan, or Lord Ram’s Army in India.

Source: Libya Today November 29, 2021 12:15 UTC