If your ship is full of holes, how do you fill it?
This is a core question confronting India.
Hate speeches. Ugly slogans. Sword-wielding religious processions. Stone-pelting. Arson. Riots. Vengeful bulldozer reprisals by the State.
Provocation. Reaction. Repression.
Is that the new formula for India’s public life? And what are the keepers of the Constitution doing about it?
ARIF MOHAMMAD KHAN — Governor of Kerala, constitutional authority, Islamic scholar — takes on this question.