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Contradiction in terms?

If only Tharoor had said "we might become a Hindu Israel" instead, he would have run into no such trouble

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Mihir S Sharma
We are now a very angry country. In fact, we’re so angry, so often, about so many different things that it can be hard to keep track. It is therefore no doubt my own fault that I am completely and utterly mystified by the fury being expressed at Shashi Tharoor’s warning that the Bharatiya Janata Party might, if allowed to, “turn India into a Hindu Pakistan”. Even by the standards of Indian news television, this seems to me to not be sufficiently astounding a statement to merit the usual line-up of boot-licking anchors, apoplectic spokesmen and ominous background music. And,
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