If there is a plan, we don’t see it. If anything, fringe waale hon ya party spokespersons… news channels hon ya election speeches ya Dharam Sansads.. the shrillness, the frequency, the crassness of hate speeches across India has only risen in recent months. Calls for the killing of Muslims, calls for the rape of Muslim women and calls to ignore the law of the land are heard repeatedly. From bulldozer raj to anti-conversion laws, which we believe are against the Constitution, with chief ministers almost competing on devising means to harass minorities – hate is only growing. And, as we have now seen, the world is taking note. While we may hair-split ke kaun fringe element hai, kaun non-fringe hai. The world does not see the difference between the bigotry of Yati Narsinghanand and Nupur Sharma. Even as the BJP censured Nupur Sharma… in true fringe element spirit, Yati Narsinghanand has defended Sharma and even accused India’s leaders of being scared and of being bought out by Islamic nations. The fact that he remains free despite multiple hate speech FIRs, despite repeatedly, publicly taunting the BJP leadership, exposes how tolerant we are of hate.