INDIA prides itself on being biggest democracy of the world and the founding fathers such as Nehru, Gandhi and other top leaders of Indian freedom movement had established a modern secular and democratic state. India is a land of many cultures and religions. Hinduism is the dominant religion but it has Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains and many other religions. The India of Narendra Modi today presents a very different picture. India today is no longer a secular society but steeped in the curse of Hindu Fundamentalism called Hindutva.

Human rights groups like Human Rights Watch state that the rise of Hindutva—a Hindu nationalist political ideology promoting Hindu supremacy—under India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has resulted in increased discrimination, hate speech, and targeted violence against religious minorities. Hindutva has become the curse of Indian political, culture. This term means that the Hindu identity and the Hindu religion should have a dominant position in defining the Indian nation. With this idea in politics members of the minority religions specially Muslims now face the question of whether they are being treated as equal citizens or as communities expected to live within a Hindu majority national framework.

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