Narendra Modi has a strange affliction. He gets verbal diarrhoea when his feet touches foreign soil but is constipated for words when he returns to India after the laborious task of acquiring frequent flier miles. His first reaction to the lynching of a Muslim on the suspicion that he was eating beef was that it was 'unfortunate'. The second comment was a real tear jerker: it was 'saddening'. Both the comments came much after the victim was buried, his family evacuated from the village, and enough venom has been spewed by Union ministers and other stormtroopers of the Sangh parivar.
An 'unfortunate, saddening' incident is when you miss your bus and arrive late for a job interview. What happened in Dadri was 'murder most foul'. The climate of violence and hatred to perpetuate this horrendous act and the assassinations of writers and thinkers in other parts of India has been created by the propagandists of the parivar. Modi is the public face of the parivar. To that extent he is morally culpable.
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