The holiday season has just passed. While most of the world rang in the New Year with messages of peace and renewal, for many in India, the winter chill brought a much harsher reality. Christmas 2025 has come and gone, but the shadows of intimidation and violence cast by RSS-backed BJP state machinery continue to loom large over the country’s religious minorities. A recent, scathing article titled ‘The Hindu Attacks on India’s Christians’ was published by Tunku Varadarajan in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). This piece has laid bare what many have feared: India’s secular foundation is being systematically dismantled, replaced by a “Hindutva” ideology that leaves little room for anyone who doesn’t fit the nationalist mould.

For India’s Christian community-a mere 2.3% of the population-the festive season was anything but merry. According to Mr Tunku’s article, Christmas 2025 became a “national flashpoint for majoritarian assertion” or, if I may say so, ‘religious extremism’. The statistics are jarring: anti-Christian incidents........

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