Saffron peril....
This
New York Times article seems to be a pretty damming indictment of the Hindu nationalist establishment. The line between muscular religiosity and nationalist conservatism on the one hand, and blind fanaticism and chauvanistic fascism, is a clear one. I have always thought that the Hindu nationalists were evolving toward the former model-but perhaps they haven't changed much at all....
Let me leave you with this:
Mothers were skewered on swords as their children watched. Young women were stripped and raped in broad daylight, then doused with kerosene and set on fire. A pregnant woman's belly was slit open, her fetus raised skyward on the tip of a sword and then tossed onto one of the fires that blazed across the city.