Civilisation is an attitude. It is a sophistication of the mind. Very few people acquire such sophistication. The vast majority remain as barbarian as the ancient savage was. There may be one difference, however. While the ancient savages inflicted physical violence on real enemies, today’s savages tend to assault the individual’s self-confidence psychologically projecting the individual as a perceived enemy. Physical violence has not vanished altogether. Most terrorist attacks are physical annihilations. Attacks on the Dalits and Muslims in India by the so-called vigilantes are often both physical and psychological. Tying up people and lashing their buttocks before a crowd is more a psychological attack than physical. So is urinating on someone’s face or forcing someone to eat cow-dung. PM Modi has publicly admitted that 4 out of 5 of these vigilantes are criminals taking advantage of the situation. RSS has taken exception to the PM’s statistics. It may be
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