How does Kanhaiya match up in comparison? His sole achievement has been to go to jail for a few days. Thus, the comparison is odious, flies in the face of historical facts, and is also an outright insult to the bravery and martyrdom of Bhagat Singh.
Unless the voices of those calling for a humane and broad-minded view of the Indian nation are heard, we are in danger of being reduced to the very thing our forefathers rejected in 1947 - a Hindu Pakistan.
So often, the phrase "Behaved like an animal" is used to denote wild, brutal, cruel behaviour. There is only one animal that acts with malice and inflicts pain for no reason - and that is the human.
Pakistan's move is seen as little more than a transparent and cliched attempt to press upon the international community that India is responsible for its share of cross-border attacks.
In convincing fashion, Republican voters seem to be selecting Donald Trump as their nominee. And in a democracy, victory has legitimacy to it. Voters are rarely wise but are usually sensible. They understand their own problems. And so deference is generally paid to the candidate who wins.
It was a strange coincidence - just an hour after anchoring a show on road safety in our country, I was out on a shoot, chatting with my cameraperson Ashok Mahale, when he nonchalantly told me something really special - something I thought I would share.
They both seek to polarize society into narrow, windowless compartments, the structure of which is determined by their own sectarian interpretations of religion and religious identity.
