Hateful speech mainly targeting India’s Muslim and Christian minorities have become, since 2014, a routine and increasingly normalised element of India’s public life.
Hate speeches commonly resound on political platforms. These have become the principal currency of election campaigning. They reverberate in what pose to be religious discourses. They resonate in television studios, on social media, in newspapers and cinema.
India led by Narendra Modi has been marked also by the conspicuous and consistent reluctance of the police and courts at every level to prevent, investigate or punish even dangerous hate speech that directly incites violence. Hateful speeches cumulatively have created a vast, alternative common sense that depicts the Muslim as disloyal, violent and lustful and the Christian as people who have been bribed by charitable social services to abandon their birth religion.
Many citizens who are appalled by the consistent failure of the criminal justice system to act against hate speech call for a dedicated hate speech law, believing that if such a statute is legislated, the spread of the poison of hate speech will be halted. Based on such beliefs, the legislatures in two Congress-led states, Karnataka and Telangana, have voted to pass the country’s first hate speech laws. The Karnataka law is awaiting...
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