Pakistan, Jan. 9 -- Secularism is a complex idea in the sense that how and when it converts into something else is difficult to define and predict.

It treads the road of religion and politics with the bare minimum cognitive symmetry in the lexicon of social sensibility. To be socially correct is the key to remaining secular. Separatism of state and church, disestablishmentarianism and accomodationism are the types which revolve around the balance of religion and the state. State-sponsored atheism is another extreme of the same spectrum.

A country with 28 states, 8 union territories,400 cities and 6 lakh villages is slowly, sloppily but not sluggishly immersing itself in the potion-filled goblet of Hindutva 2.0. The First Hindutva state ...