There are moments when the conduct of those in power strips away all pretence and reveals the republic as it is, not as it claims to be. What unfolded on a public stage in Patna this week was a disturbing reflection of exactly that. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pulling down a Muslim woman doctor's hijab at a graduation ceremony was an act of public humiliation that laid bare a political culture where Muslim identity is increasingly treated as something to be policed or stripped away, even in........

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