Food, community and elections

Like all good businessmen who think anything below the previous financial year's profits a 'loss', the BJP too wants each election to bring in higher returns

Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Opposition leaders of displaying a "Mughal mindset" when videos surfaced of Lalu Yadav, Tejashvi, and Rahul Gandhi bonding over cooking mutton. Not only did he accuse them of deviating from Hindu dharma in the auspicious month of Sawan, but he also alleged that the display of bonhomie was deliberate.

The videos, the PM said, were reflective of the mindset of the "Mughal" invaders "who found perverse joy in the demolition of temples and defiling places of worship.

To dismiss this as election rhetoric would be to forget that creating controversies over meat-eating has