"The Muslims have overtly refused to feel humiliated, thereby denying the Hindutva crowd the satisfaction of having avenged the “humiliation” heaped on their “ancestors” centuries ago by the “outsiders.” In a perceptive 2003 essay on ‘Humiliation’, Professor Ashis Nandy, one of India’s most respected social psychologists, had noted that... Unless the humiliated collaborate by feeling humiliated, you cannot humiliate them, however hard you try"

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The BJP’s Humiliation Industry Marches On

The Hindutva leadership has succeeded in politically marginalising Muslims, but not in provoking them into the confrontation it desperately needs. That failure may explain the search for ever newer forms of exclusion and economic punishment.

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