The nuanced and sensitive majority judgment in the triple talaq case, which upheld equality as well as personal law, has been met in some quarters by predictable majoritarian gloating. Muslim-bashing is supposed to be the sneaky new freedom of ‘New India’ in which unabashed ‘nationalists’ now feel free to give vent to as much ire against minorities as they want, freed at last from the so-called shackles of secular dominance.
The PM defined ‘New India’ as a fight against communalism, casteism and corruption, yet for many it is only a licence to be openly prejudiced. Are the revolutionaries of New India purveying the worst of old Bharat and its biases and passing off plain bigotry as some imagined “Hindu” cultural renaissance? Read More
