Morality and society
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Kajal Chatterjee
Contd from previous issue
In contrast when a party climbs to the echelons of power through rabid religious muscle-flexing and invocation of crude Islamophobia with its leading figures scandalously terming the citizens of a particular denomination as "infiltrators" with "lots of children", despite the country being a secular Republic according to the Constitution; the concerned society would naturally fall apart in psychic terms with communal elements calling the shots assaulting/killing innocent people in the name of "holy cow"! What better can be expected in that society where a top mandarin of the country issues "clarion call" of "identifying criminals with their clothes" with a clear hint about the religious denomination of the "criminals" though they are all Indians of indigenous vintage! (To be contd)
Contd from previous issue
In contrast when a party climbs to the echelons of power through rabid religious muscle-flexing and invocation of crude Islamophobia with its leading figures scandalously terming the citizens of a particular denomination as "infiltrators" with "lots of children", despite the country being a secular Republic according to the Constitution; the concerned society would naturally fall apart in psychic terms with communal elements calling the shots assaulting/killing innocent people in the name of "holy cow"! What better can be expected in that society where a top mandarin of the country issues "clarion call" of "identifying criminals with their clothes" with a clear hint about the religious denomination of the "criminals" though they are all Indians of indigenous vintage! (To be contd)