Samar Halarnkar: The mass radicalisation that India does not acknowledge / Ruchir Joshi: A verdict on the republic
It is now clear that if you are Muslim in Narendra Modi’s new India you can be arrested for selling shoes, taking part in a protest, talking to or walking with a Hindu girl, driving a cattle truck, cracking a joke – or not. If you are a Muslim in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Constitution means little and the law can be twisted in any manner to imprison you. Criminality is irrelevant. It does even not matter that you may be a victim, not the perpetrator. Such is the ever-growing reality for Indian Muslims.
Consider Munawar Faruqui, the standup comic, now in jail 23
days without bail for no crime. His show in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, was
disrupted by vigilantes from the Hindu Rakshan Sangathan (Hindu Protection
Union), who claimed he was “going to” joke about Hindu gods. Instead of
arresting the goons, the superintendent of police commended them for being
“alert and vigilant” and arrested Faruqui instead.
Ruchir Joshi: A verdict on the republic
Consider Nasir, the poor shoe vendor who was menaced by
Bajrang Dal goons in the town of Gulaothi, Uttar Pradesh for selling shoes
branded “Thakur”, the caste name of the chief minister and a word that affected
their upper-caste Hindu sensibilities. They were not arrested of course, Nasir
was. He was lucky to have been released after two days. The case against him
for “promoting enmity” will proceed.
Consider the unfortunate Muslim teenager from Bijnor, also in Uttar Pradesh, who was beaten by a mob, then arrested for walking a friend, a Hindu, home. He’s been in jail for 42 days, with bail rejected three times – there is no basis for bail, the judge said – charged under Uttar Pradesh’s new law that uses the fig leaf of conversion to discourage interfaith marriage and criminalise such love. Reams have been written about the slow disintegration of the rule of law in India during Modi’s tenure. To be sure, the hold of the law and governance in India has always been tenuous – Lant Pritchett, a Harvard professor, famously called India not a failed state but a flailing state – but there was an institutional and social consensus against its blatant disregard….
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