From a gym owner’s quiet act of courage to incendiary speeches by chief ministers, the battle over India’s secular promise is playing out in plain sight. A new PIL asks: who will enforce the red lines the Constitution already draws?
“Why can't we all be a little like ‘Mohammed Deepak’?”, asked a rights activist who is campaigning against hate speech and is a signatory to a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) filed by a group of prominent “concerned citizens” in the Supreme Court on the issue.