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As examples from history show, when jokes start circulating about a powerful leader, cracks in political legitimacy begin to appear.

— Nissim Mannathukkaren

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There is something deeply troubling about a culture which makes humans into gods, and which puts people on pedestals to be worshipped. For, it glosses over all blemishes in its quest for the godly.

The joke is not on Modi. The joke is on the "educated" elite/middle class supporters of Modi who have made idiocy and ignorance fashionable.

To place the responsibility of violence on the illiterate, poor and unemployed mobs is to completely miss the pathologies amongst us, the privileged and the powerful, which are the greatest enablers of violence.

Moral culpability is denied through false equivalence.

It is not that Hindutva supporters equate vastly different phenomena with vastly different consequences, but they also willfully gloss over facts.

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