NOW that elections are passe, the cloak and dagger activity of the BJP too seems to have outlived its utility. With comfortable majority in the parliament, they do not want to hide anything, everything is open. They are defining how India needs to be, what Indianness is and who stays in India.

India, according to a Goan minister, Deepak Dhavlikar belonging to the regional outfit Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), an alliance partner of Bharatiya Janata Party, should be a Hindu state. He found in the present prime minister Narendra Modi, a person who would be able to realize this dream for him – making India into a Hindu State. Clever minister he is, he qualifies his statement saying that converting India into a Hindu State by Modi is possible only if Modi gets “unstinted and full support from all of us”.

Not to be left behind the minister in singing paeans, the deputy chief minister of Goa Francis D'souza declared, “India is a Hindu country. It is Hindustan. All Indians in Hindustan are Hindus”. If one is flummoxed on hearing this from FRANCIS D'SOUZA, he clarified: “I am a Christian Hindu”. Coming from a small state, Goa, two things are thus made clear – one, if not yet a Hindu country, India will be converted into a Hindu Rashtra by Narendra Modi and two, there can only be Hindus in India. Christian-Hindus and Muslim-Hindus are tolerable, but not Christians and Muslims, with their own independent religious identity. This is Hindutva in all its naked glory and all of us should support it! Otherwise...

If you happen to be an ardent social media user and activist, better beware. Facebook and Twitter are for you to read posts, better if the posts you read are from the PMO, BJP and their like. You should follow them, like them or not. Of course, if you like them, all the better. If somebody entertains any absurd idea to use Facebook or Twitter for social purposes and question authority or post comments questioning His Excellency, the prime minister of India, examples are ready to show them what befalls upon them. Goa, again shows the way. A man who had posted comments against HE Modi is arrested and harassed. Thinking Goa is ruled by BJP and its allies, so this might happen, think again. Kerala is where a teacher was arrested for publishing an internal college magazine critical of HE Modi. If you are the type who doesn't get cowed down by arrests and still continue your opposition, withholding support to project Hindu Rashtra, then there is Pune.

What happens if one does not extend their support is enacted in Pune where Mohsin Sadiq Sheikh, a young man, who just started his life, was killed by the Hindu Rashtra Sena because of a controversial Facebook post to which he wasn't even related. Supporters of the Shiv Sena, BJP and the Hindu Rashtra Sena had violently protested the Facebook post and in the course found Sheikh walking on the streets with a friend. His appearance gave away that he was not one 'amongst' them and so was targeted. And he died. Simple as that. Message was sent, that the first wicket has fallen. If you still want to bat, beware of the bowlers from Bodyline series! For India to be Hindu Rashtra, all these are necessary.

From here follows what is Indianness. K Laxman, a BJP leader from Telangana, called Sania Mirza one of India's most successful tennis players as not fit to be the brand ambassador of Telangana because she is the “daughter-in-law of Pakistan”. What he meant is SANIA MIRZA, is not INDIAN. Understood.

Surprisingly for BJP, Sonia Gandhi who is a daughter-in-law of India and a citizen of the country by choice is not a qualification enough for being Indian. She remains Italian. These criteria of course do not apply for Sania Mirza, because...the name tells out why. She does not fit in their definition of Indianness as 'all Indians in Hindustan are Hindus'.

Indianness also for them means Hinduness. And Hindus do not celebrate Ramzan or observe roza. Natural corollary is no Indian celebrates Ramzan or observes roza. It is with this arrogant understanding that Shiv Sena MP, Rajan Vichare force fed a Muslim catering worker for serving poor quality food at Maharashtra Sadan, New Delhi. That this incident led to a number of clashes in many parts of the country is insignificant, rather it is good because it serves a purpose – a message is sent: India is no country for non-Hindus.

Wondering how so many things have happened in so little a time, just sixty days, the honeymoon period? After all acche din cannot wait! If so much can happen in 2 months, wondering what all can happen in the remaining 58 months? Acche din will not stop!

All the above mentioned incidents are sedatives that are given to tranquilize us. Forget the rising prices of tomatoes. Forget the rising prices of fuel. Forget the rising costs of travelling. Forget the burning hole in your pocket and that burning feeling in your stomach. Pop in the sedative – Hindu, Hindu Rashtra, Christian-Hindu, Muslim-Hindu and hail the ruler!

If the sedative does not work, do not worry, there will be surgeries performed. Look at Muzaffarnagar and now Saharanpur. Many more minor surgeries are already being performed all over the body country. Watch them, discuss them and learn from them. If even these minor surgeries do not help you from thinking away from insurance privatisation, FDI in defence and still the proposed changes in labour laws worry you, there are few major interventions that will be made. One such was made in 2002, the Gujarat model. Acche din indeed!

It seems, economic crisis and hatred are twins, born to Capital with a big C. C wants us to hate and fight, while it goes on a binging spree, putting up more and more fat. All those who are health conscious, know that whether it is obesity or cancer, fighting them in their initial stages guarantees success. Communalism is cancer and capital is getting obese pushing us all into malnourishment. The only way out is fight. Hitler too was a coward, afraid of a fight. History recorded that he along with many of his like, lost when challenged to fight. The question is, are we game enough?