There’s a debate in place that India is currently more intolerant than ever before. Going by the dominant voices who believe so, it’s pretty obvious that their assertion is more political than social. The epicenter of this argument can be located at the recent Dadri lynching case. After the shameful mob justice that happened in UP, echoes of ‘intolerance’ started ringing. Interestingly enough, this perception was specific to English media. Hindi media, which has its nose closer to the ground, didn’t jump on the bandwagon. It’d be safe to assume that never before in the history of the English language has the term intolerance been abused the way it is now. If one wayward incident can smear the entire nation (imagine the backlash Brand India would be facing in the international community/market due to this campaign), then the Bodo-Muslim riots of 2012 and Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 did far greater damage to the fabric of our country when hundreds of people were massacred. Weren’t these two deeply religious in nature? Weren’t we
Rising tolerance for nonsense
Rising tolerance for nonsense
Rising tolerance for nonsense
There’s a debate in place that India is currently more intolerant than ever before. Going by the dominant voices who believe so, it’s pretty obvious that their assertion is more political than social. The epicenter of this argument can be located at the recent Dadri lynching case. After the shameful mob justice that happened in UP, echoes of ‘intolerance’ started ringing. Interestingly enough, this perception was specific to English media. Hindi media, which has its nose closer to the ground, didn’t jump on the bandwagon. It’d be safe to assume that never before in the history of the English language has the term intolerance been abused the way it is now. If one wayward incident can smear the entire nation (imagine the backlash Brand India would be facing in the international community/market due to this campaign), then the Bodo-Muslim riots of 2012 and Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 did far greater damage to the fabric of our country when hundreds of people were massacred. Weren’t these two deeply religious in nature? Weren’t we