At Teheleka Kiran Nagarkar warns that in India: "National and regional political parties have exploited and honed the business of intolerance into a fine art", in The fine art of Intolerance.
He notes:
He notes:
A few decades into Independence, we began to realise the political potential in becoming highly over-sensitive people with extra-thin skins. Everybody is on the lookout for slights, innuendoes, real or imagined slurs and everybody takes offence if there is a suggestion of malpractice or abuse of power in his or her select field or group.