IS INDIA RISING OR DISINTEGRATING?

Looking at India's international business scorecards or Test cricket scores there's no doubt the country is rising.
But looking at all the self-destructive activity going on across the country, spurred by narrow chauvinism over religion, caste, language-affinity and pettier reasons, it seems the country is disintegrating.
Yesterday, for instance, a young north Indian worker fleeing the city of Mumbai (Bombay) in fear of ethnic violence, was brutally beaten to death in a train by a mob. Today, bomb blasts across the state of Assam have killed at least sixty. The last two months have seen brutal cycles of provocation and retaliation in states across India, including the cities of Mumbai and Bangalore.
In India today mobs who beat up one individual call themselves tigers. And those who destroy the country's unity call themselves patriots.
If ever there was a country rising and disintegrating at the same time, that's today's India.
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