What’s more sacred in India? Secularism or cows?

Religious minorities are being marginalized, and the people who define India as a 'Hindu country' are in charge.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, with former prime minister Stephen Harper in 2014. Modi draws much of his support from populist Hindus, writes Gwynne Dyer.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 21, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—When India got its independence from Britain 70 years ago, it was founded as a secular democracy—secular because it acknowledged the status and rights of Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, and other religious minorities as equal to those of the Hindu majority. Mahatma Gandhi, the great her...

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