This festive season, hired goons from saffron outfits roamed the streets with impunity, dancing outside mosques, vandalising Christmas celebrations and beating up those who make a livelihood from festive sales
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As I see it, the majoritarian call to arms, hate speech and vigilante justice is gaining ascendancy year after year. It would be foolish to assume this happens without state complicity or party sanction. The fringe is increasingly becoming mainstream even as law and order plays catch up, or worse, sides with the mob. Recent incidents bear this out. Anjel Chakma from Tripura was stabbed to death in ‘Devbhoomi’ Uttarakhand’s capital Dehradun for confronting rogues who hurled racial slurs on him and his brother. His last words, “We are not Chinese, we are Indians. What certificate should we show to prove that?” should prick those with any shred of conscience left.
31/12/2025