Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.The most profound irony of majoritarian politics is that it ends up destroying the very ‘majority’ it vowed to protect. This fundamental contradiction connects right-wing demagogues across time: from Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to our neighbour Mahinda Rajapaksa. These men promised their supporters racial supremacy, economic success and restoration of national pride. But they ended up burning in their own bonfires.Narendra Modi is fast becoming the latest addition to this list as all Indians – cutting across caste, class, gender, sexuality, religion, regional divides and ethnicity – begin to wake up to the...