India, Sept. 1 -- JCB School of Justice Hitler in Nazi Germany used to claim, "I am the law", and Louis XIV earlier in France, "I am the state." Today, in India, our Topmost Leader seems to claim "I am everything: Legislative, Executive and Judiciary." Each section readily falls in line, happy to comply. Consequences follow.

Avay Shukla, in his "Holy Cows and Loose Cannons" (Paranjoy, Manipal, 2025), says that the IPC has been replaced by JCB: Parliament House destroyed; houses of Muslims and weaker groups bulldozed in Delhi, UP, Assam.

He continues, "I have discovered that whereas to build is human, to demolish is divine." Such a craze drives our present Regime: Babri Masjid in 1992, Ernakulam in 2019, selective demolition of the house...