By Stuart Burns
Pragmatically, you could hope Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) focus on Hindu nationalism is more a smokescreen to deflect attention from a deteriorating economy than it is the start of India's spiral to increasing polarization and fragmentation of its multicultural democracy.
The economy has certainly been on a slide for much of the last year and the BJP has been harassed increasingly by the opposition Indian National Congress over its handling of the economy.
India's consumer price index increase reached 7.35% in December 2019 from a