'Digging up the tomb doesn’t harm Aurangzeb. The controversy shows our politics is primitive'

Do people really care so much about a man who died over 300 years ago that riots broke out in his name in Nagpur on Monday? Is it a little surreal that over 40 people were injured in those riots, which were basically about nothing of contemporary consequence? That it is feared that there may be more violence?
How’s this for a final bit of surrealism: asked about the mayhem and violence, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra blamed it all on a Hindi movie. There is something so phoney, so staged, and so totally unnecessary about the controversy over the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, who died in 1707. It tells us something about India’s politicians—how having failed to effectively tackle the present, they have sought refuge in the past.

Not all of the issues surrounding this manufactured controversy are black and white—some are nuanced—but simple common sense is lacking the most.
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