debater

India is passing through the second darkest phase post-independence, the first being the emergency (1975-1977) declared by Indira Gandhi. This is nothing short of an undeclared emergency where fascists are brandishing their weapons so openly and the law enforcement authorities siding with the criminals more often than not. India is a rainbow of multiple cultures, languages, and religions united by a secular constitution that recognizes diversity. In spite of the pulls and pressures of the past, the people of India did not let the governments play with the sanctity of the basic structure of the constitution. Though most of the politicians, cutting across the party lines, are opportunists, they have not been as brazen as those holding the offices in the government right now in exhibiting their love for an ideology that led Godse to slay one of the all-time icons of India, Mahatma Gandhi. The ruling dispensation has effectively shut the voices of politicians and its critics employing t