Like everyone else, I also get tired of this seemingly endless ‘nationalist versus anti-nationalist’, ‘patriot versus traitor’, ‘tolerant versus intolerant’ discussion that has consumed India. And it’s not just India. The American presidential campaign for the choice of candidates is all versus them. Britain is going through a patriot versus European thing. The people of Syria are torn between being killed here and rejected there. It’s the same story repeating itself over and over again.

A still from the Game of Thrones, where punishments are harsh. So are some of the real life ‘punishments’ meted out in India, where law and order takes a break while people are lynched, stoned, burnt, stabbed, raped, just to uphold some ideology or tradition or the other