Shoe hurled at CJI Gavai during SC proceedings: How protest for Sanatan Dharma became a ‘casteist attack’ in the Left’s imagination

When a 71-year-old lawyer flung his shoe towards Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai in open court, shouting “Sanatan ka apmaan nahi sahenge!”, it was an act of raw outrage. Rash, highly condemnable, but unmistakably rooted in faith. Within minutes, however, India’s liberal echo chamber decided to read something entirely different: caste.

The shoe, they said, wasn’t hurled in defence of Sanatan Dharma; it was an attack on a “Dalit Chief Justice.”

This is the perverse alchemy of India’s left-liberal intelligentsia, where every almost everything must be twisted into a social fault line, every protest of faith turned into a caste war. One of the seniormost Opposition leaders, Rahul Gandhi, has long championed himself as a caste crusader, positioning himself as the self-appointed messiah of Da