Night curfews are the flavor of the day with governments trying to tell us that they are doing something about the pandemic while, at the same time, politicians are busy doing what they want to do anyway. The other side of the pandemic story is the panic spread by fake news which forced the PM himself to confuse us further with "precautionary dose". Given that there is no real repercussion for spreading fake news, even top politicians are doing so with relish, such as the tweet from Mamata Bannerjee on freezing the accounts of Mother Teresa's missionary in India.

Conversions are the focus once more given Karnataka's recent anti-conversion law which has predictably triggered the global ecosystem even as the local one cries hoarse on the law being unconstitutional. Article 25, if that is the argument, is not going to come to the rescue, but it does seem that the Constitution maybe like the one-way traffic arrangements of Bengaluru.

Tejasvi Surya urged Hindu institutions to set annual targets for reconversion (gharvāpsī) and then pusillanimously backtracked, perhaps after a rap on the knuckles from his seniors. On the other hand, Naseeruddin Shah went full Rahul by calling Moghuls as refugees. Babar, perhaps, sought refuge in India to escape from the diseases that the Europeans were spreading in South America at that time.