'Nero fiddled while Rome burnt '... a perfect example of this can be found in today's India. Ethnic strife, a fallout of hate fanned against minorities countrywide by the saffron party resulted in the death of 50 tribals in the past few days in Manipur. The situation is so bad in the North East region that other States have begun to 'evacuate' their 'citizens' from Manipur. Till now we had only heard of countries evacuating their citizens from conflict zones in other nations across the globe !! The insidious, divisive policies of the Centre have reduced India to a wounded, fragmented confederation of states some at war with each other, think Assam-Meghalaya. Infact the Union government itself is engaged in a constant battle of attrition with non- BJP ruled states to reduce them to rubble. In other news, soldiers are being regularly massacred by terrorists in Rajouri sector in J&K, yet these two issues have not merited even a perfunctory condemnation / consolation tweet from our bigoted rulers who are busy sowing seeds of hate and polarization in Karnataka to reap electoral dividends.
