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By Ishaan Gollamudi On paper, India is a secular country. The deliberate lack of a national religion was meant to reconcile India’s newfound nationhood with the fact that the only thing most of its population had in common was being subjugated by uniformed men with pasty skin and weak stomachs. That is why it was so jarring to see Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi not only breaking ground on the site of a demolished mosque – the Babri Masjid – but also inaugurating the Hindu temple constructed there. It...