The murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons in Odisha in January 1999 remains one of the darkest moments in independent India’s history. Burnt alive in their vehicle by a mob led by Dara Singh, the killings shocked the nation and the world.
Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee condemned the murders, and the Supreme Court would later uphold Dara Singh’s conviction. However, more than a quarter of a century later, the question raised by the Staines murders has not disappeared: what happens to a democracy when violence against a minority becomes normalised?
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