An excerpt from ‘Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here’. Dec 21, 2020 · 08:30 am A Bharatiya Janata Party supporter at a screening of the stone-laying ceremony for the proposed Ram Temple in Ayodhya in August. | Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Bhutan is possibly the most theocratic nation in the world.
India identified and singled out the two Islamic states of Afghanistan and Pakistan when it justified the passing of the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019, and threw in Bangladesh for good measure. But Bhutan has escaped attention because it is Buddhist and therefore acceptable to the BJP, though it is more of a religious state than any other in India’s neighbourhood.