Sacred Cow & Profane Politics
A nation struggling to recover from one crisis has been hit by another
The killing of a man over rumours of beef eating in a western UP village brings out the worst instincts of electoral politics and casts a shadow on the modernisation programme of the Prime Minister
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s magisterial memoir further underlines the truth that the consolidation of India’s own nationhood depends crucially on our being able to look on Pakistan as a friend and neighbour, not as a threat and an enemy
Modi has to regain the argument at home by not letting the mad men of the Hindu Right undermine his ambition