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On both economic and social fronts, Indians today are worse off than before

The Modi era in whose eighth year we are is defined by two central themes. The first comes from an act of commission. This is the drafting of Muslim-specific legislation. The first of the laws came in 2015, after the prime minister advocated against what he called a “pink revolution”, or the meat trade. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) states of Maharashtra and Haryana responded with laws criminalising the possession of beef. On March 3, 2015, came the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, 2015, and on March 17 came the Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act, 2015.

On May 30 began