According to a survey conducted by a leading TV channel, hateful, bigoted and inciting speeches by high ranking politicians have surged by over 1000% since 2014. Previously India only witnessed cold waves and heat waves but we now experience hate waves and with the election looming large expect more frequent vitriolic utterances from our rulers. In 'New India' evil wins by default while good has to fight to stay relevant. Sadly the mainstream media and intellectuals with an agenda have helped whitewash bigotry and scrub the pradhan sevak's failures and missteps out of public discourse ; clinging to his words instead of his track record has become a collective delusion. A nation is eating itself to death while the leaders spew venom and the saffron faithful lap up their words to extinction. Cry my beloved country.
