https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/asia/india-hindu-muslims-mosque.html
> Violence along religious lines is not new in India. But what played out in Sambhal — documented in interviews and court documents — crystallized a new reality where the arms of the state that once tried to play the role of referee now increasingly serve as the muscle of the forces recasting India’s secular republic as a Hindu-first nation.






