Meghnad Desai loves to cook, watch and write about old Bollywood movies and shuttles between London, Delhi and Goa. He pursues controversies on economics, history and anything else which catches his attention. He is also a British parliamentarian sitting in the House of Lords. He has written over 25 books, over 200 articles in learned journals and hundreds of newspaper columns in UK and India.
Out of my mind: Whither the Hindu Rashtra?
From the proceedings in Maharashtra, there are deeper conclusions to be drawn. If two Hindu nationalist parties cannot agree on a power-sharing coalition because of the Brahmin/non-Brahmin difference, what hope is there for a Hindu Rashtra?
While the Supreme Court judgment of Saturday, November 9 (India’s own 9/11), was a plus for the long-run agenda of the Sangh Parivar, the hiatus in Maharashtra has been a setback. The Shiv Sena was never officially a part of the Parivar but ideologically there was little distance between the BJP and Shiv Sena. The Sena even claims ownership of the idea of destroying the Babri Masjid. Success has many fathers.
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