It has taken Vice President Venkaiah Naidu to break the political executive’s silence on the growing normalisation of hate speech in public. Naidu’s statement that hate speech is against Indian culture has come not a moment too soon.
For, hatred is in the air, and it has only been amplified by social media. After all, what makes an 18-year-old woman join hands with an engineering student to humiliate Muslim women by putting them up for “auction” on an app? What makes a religious gathering call for violence against Muslims in Haridwar? What makes another sadhu use a religious platform to heap abuse on Mahatma Gandhi?
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