It has been called a pogrom. So what will happen after the devastation and the killings, the brunt of which has been borne by the Muslim community?

Narendra Modi’s political culture is groaning under its own weight. It is only now noticing that even hatred can lose elections. This, for the BJP, is an alien and very frightening thought.

So how much voltage of what kind of ‘current’ is Amit Shah fantasising to send terrible shivers down the spine of peaceful people in Shaheen Bagh?

Congress and other conventional parties are staring at irrelevance if they do not creatively step up their participation. The coming of age of young leaders not only challenges the BJP, but also all the traditional parties.

Can the majority backing BJP truly accept that they will finally inherit a peaceful, stable and prosperous nation without communal violence, lawlessness, mob lynchings, and all-round bloody anarchy?