Hate is a powerful and destructive emotion, and when it gets transformed into hate-mongering against an entire community, it can destroy a country. It happened back in 1947, and it is happening today. If it turned the country’s “present” chaotic back then, it is destroying its future now, and quite literally so.

Last month, the Belagavi district police in Karnataka arrested Sagara Patil, the Soundatti taluk president of Sri Ram Sene (SRS), for deliberately poisoning the water in a government primary school in the Hoolikatte village. The reason? He wanted the school principal, who was from a minority community, to get transferred. The price of his xenophobia was paid by about a dozen innocent children.........

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