India, Oct. 12 -- Justice GR Swaminathan might as well put down his judge's gown and permanently take up a saffron dhoti, since his actions do not conform to the office he holds. He has definitively abandoned his judicial role and taken up the Hindutva agenda when he moved from examining an organisation's conduct to making sweeping judgments about the character of entire religions.

The case concerns a Zen meditation centre founded by Fr. Ama Samy, a Catholic priest. The legal question was whether the Kanzeon Public Charitable Trust had correctly disclosed its religious character while applying for FCRA registration.

Propaganda has become so entrenched that religious generalisations are already a substitute for sound reasoning and are be...