In recent years, religious militancy and communal strife have become the biggest danger to India’s secular fabric. Had the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won India’s recent election, power would probably have gradually shifted into the hands of Hindutva fanatics, who were careful to play down the communal card. Hindutva did not go down well with the voters in the 2004 Indian elections.India is a secular state, but it has to deal with the “problem of Islam” and the Muslims. Muslims in India are per…
