It is often said that India’s outrage economy has a short memory and an even shorter attention span. But when a shoe was flung toward CJI B.R. Gavai, presumably over his remarks in a plea concerning the restoration of Lord Vishnu’s idol, it was enough to set the social media circus ablaze. Media went berserk, Opposition parties and the usual suspects of India’s secular ecosystem gave it a ‘caste spin’, and ‘neutral’ journalists began sermonising about “respect for institutions.”

In fact, days later when the issue should have died down on its own, there are still propagandists like Arfa Khanum Sherwani and assorted other leftists, trying to frame the incident from a ‘casteist‘ lens, hoping that it would help them cast a dent in the Hindu society’s unity that’s primarily responsible for cat

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