#SudhaMurthy falling at the feet of #SambhajiBhide is another reminder of how venerated bigotry has become around us.

Mohsin Shaikh was murdered in Pune in a hate crime by the Hindu Rashtra Sena in 2014 exactly a week after PM Modi's swearing in. Since then, we seem to have only ceded more space to hate, and elevated hatemongers like Bhide.