With the country seemingly at a tipping point as agitations and demonstrations have become the order of the day, it appears even the gods aren’t safe. The Pune Municipal Corporation’s education board has felt compelled to build a cage around an idol of Saraswati at the entrance of its office after a Dalit organisation threatened to remove it. Thirty thousand rupees of taxpayers’ money has been expended in the process.

Behind lock and key: The Saraswati idol at the entrance of the PMC office has been kept inside an enclosure. Pic/Krunal Gosavi