Shashi Tharoor, the Mahua Moitra of Congress, tweeted a cartoon showing Aurangzeb surprised to find that he is not in history but in current affairs. The irony notwithstanding, the sheer hypocrisy of apologists like Tharoor simply shows a blindness they have for ground realities. 

Is constitutional morality just a veil, a cooked up label, to endure minoritarian violence in the name of desecration and insult, such as what happened last week in the Sikh-dominated Punjab? The answer is, of course, yes, because constitutional morality applies only to Hindus, as amply evidenced by the recent verdict by the Supreme Court on allowing non-Hindus to participating in the process of shops to be leased around a Hindu temple. What, by the way, constitutes the bounds of a constitutional Hindu temple? The outer walls? The sanctum? The idol?

Amidst all these is the government mandate on linking Aadhaar with the voter card, an exercise fraught with untold miseries. Incidentally, this is being opposed in the name of political profiling, a most dunderheaded reason, which only proves that the opposition still has a long way to go.