NEW DELHI: A brawny gym instructor has become a poster boy for India’s longstanding but fraying pluralism after he stepped in to defend an old Muslim shopkeeper who was harassed by a group of Hindus in Kotdwar, a city in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.
It has come as a welcome flicker of hope against widespread instances of right-wing Hindu vigilante assaults against India’s minorities, especially Muslims.
