Jim Geraghty provides an explanation for why our lives have become so politicized and the politics so dumb in a recent essay in The Washington Post (reprinted in the Jan. 15 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette).
However much the Sangh parivar may try now to impose its intolerant religious diktats by using her name, Kali in Bengal had been traditionally worshipped as a goddess of rebellion against all such repressive orders.