<b>T N Ninan: </b>Hypocritical contestations

Opposition must start behaving like it believes in the constitutional principles it wants protected

The problem with looking at issues in the country from a specific community’s perspective (or from that of just one political formation) is that you miss the larger, more pervasive picture. Only the willfully blind will seek to deny the truth in the outgoing vice-president’s assertion that Muslims feel insecure. But, surely, the reason why the police go easy on cases of cow vigilantism is the same as why the police treat a case of attempted abduction of a young woman as one involving lesser crimes, and on that basis let a drunk young man from an influential family go