India, Sept. 22 -- Mohan Bhagwat is like the firebomber who lights a fire that threatens to become a monstrous conflagration, steps back, and superficially orders his henchmen not to fuel the fire, but then suggests that, on their own accord, they are free to fan the flames.

What we are witnessing today are the dangerous early stirrings of the sequel to the cataclysmic Ram Janmabhoomi movement and destruction of the Babri Masjid in 1992, this time helmed by none other than the RSS Sarsanghchalak.

Speaking during the RSS's centenary year celebrations a couple of weeks ago, Bhagwat, apart from blithely semaphoring 'a Hindu Rashtra for all' and arguing that 'true' Independence deliverance was achieved with the consecration of the Ram templ...