Are feelings of hate ingrained in human beings like love, or does hate emerge due to external motivation? This was among the points debated in the Karnataka Legislative Council last week as the ruling BJP government pushed through the Karnataka Protection of Freedom of Religion Bill, 2022. While the central point of the six-hour debate, driven by the Leader of Opposition in the Council, the Congress’s B K Hariprasad, was that the anti-conversion Bill was intended to ensure that the downtrodden Dalits and Scheduled Tribes remained confined to the chains of the caste system, the BJP, led by Chief Minister...