| As India hosts the G-20, a warning about the country’s future

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A Hindu scholar and former judge of the Supreme Court of India discusses the dangerous path India is on as religious intolerance flares.

But even as the celebratory mood hits a fevered pitch, Muslims in India continue to be targeted in hate crimes, with inciting rhetoric spreading widely on traditional and social media. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is somewhere between passive and complicit as the chaos spreads.

A kind of madness is also prevailing today here in India. Passions are running high. A fire is burning. If you keep on fueling it, it will burn. If you stop fueling it, one day it will slowly subside and die out.remember the famous poem A lot of Muslims seem to be resorting to cynicism right now because they don’t see justice coming from any quarters. Has the rule of law collapsed in the country?. The problem is that if you criticize the government, chances are that the state will weaponize the law against you. So, unless you have the ability to withstand all this, and are sure that you don’t have any personal matters which can be turned against you in a court of law, you are always afraid.

Unless the state is complicit in it, these things won't continue. But the state is complicit in it. What can you and I do? We can’t reason with the state. We are not in a position to stop it by merely lecturing. The state is not going to listen to us. For them, gathering votes is more important than trying to look at constitutional values.

 

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