At the time that journalist Shujaat Bukhari was shot dead allegedly by a jihadist group operating in the Kashmir Valley, another extremist, an allegedly right-wing Hindutva-motivated individual, Parashuram Waghmore reportedly told police: “I killed Gauri Lankesh to save my religion.” Bukhari and Lankesh, two journalists killed in two very different parts of India yet whose deaths point to the same chilling reality: those unarmed non-violent voices occupying the middle ground between ideological extremes, are increasingly staring at the barrel of a gun.
Social media has opened up a new universe to disseminate violence and prejudice and moderates are under furious attack for being either “anti-national” or “sellouts”. Today, the middle ground, that crucial body of people who keep society sane, who Read More
