Apoorvanand

In the state that Modi is build­ing, no one – not even Hin­dus he claims to speak for – will have rights. Or a voice.

Modi turned the state elec­tion into a ref­er­en­dum on him­self. He lost. And south­ern In­dia is now free of the BJP.

PM’s par­ty is edit­ing text­books to por­tray fan­ta­sy of In­dia as Hin­du-only na­tion that has al­ways been lov­ing and just.

It has unit­ed In­dia’s op­po­si­tion for the first time since Modi came to pow­er. Gand­hi must now unite the na­tion.

It is no co­in­ci­dence that Bilkis Bano’s rapists were re­leased on In­dia’s In­de­pen­dence Day.

The anti-Is­lam in­sults by high-rank­ing BJP staffers, which caused a diplo­mat­ic storm, are hard­ly anom­alies.

But re­sis­tance to the vi­o­lent and di­vi­sive pol­i­tics of Hin­du na­tion­al­ists is also grow­ing.

The rul­ing par­ty is try­ing to de­monise the farm­ers’ protests by por­tray­ing them as a Sikh con­spir­a­cy.

The new ‘anti-con­ver­sion’ laws re­move agency from women and put a tar­get on the backs of in­no­cent Mus­lim men and boys.

I doc­u­ment­ed and wrote about the Del­hi com­mu­nal ri­ots. Now I am be­ing por­trayed as con­spir­ing to in­cite vi­o­lence.