funny that though you make this in bold and say lot of grand things about india, three progressives/rationalists have been murdered by the sangh since 2013 for saying much less than the underlined.
one of your thankers is
@ranjeet ... when a dalit student/intellectual in karnataka was threatened by bajrang dal terrorists with finger chop-chop some months ago for writing against the caste system and brahminical oppression, ranjeet brushed away the incident saying that they only applied vermilion on his forehead and gave him a gentle warning... even a "gentle warning" by the bajrang dal would constitute a crime.
as for kamlesh tiwari's ignorant statement, any old-style desi socialist muslim could have put him in place in a intellectual debate, but sadly the media channels that the mob-minded jobnik middle-class watches, are generally sensationalist or pro-sangh ones like "zee news" and "aaj tak" who purposely bring in some half-baked mullah to talk on behalf of islam.