Editorial Note
The BJP’s propaganda machinery extolls Prime Minister Modi’s greatest achievement as improving India’s image on the global stage. But these sycophants don’t talk about the democratic decline in the country.
The ‘Idea of India’ as a paradigm for universal brotherhood, peaceful co-existence, tolerance, and social and religious harmony is jeopardised by sinister forces of religious fanaticism and ethnonationalism from within. A twisted, Hindutva supremacist agenda, propagated and perpetuated by the incumbent ultra-nationalist government, has sown the seeds of destruction for the hallowed principles of democracy enshrined in letter and spirit of the Indian constitution. The minds of Indians have become islands of prejudice and hatred, widening the “Us vs Them” chasm. They are dangerously and unwittingly leading a peaceful nation into anarchy.