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“But I must confess—I am scared today. When I think about the «Sangh» now, a
nightmarish metaphor comes to my mind. I keep perceiving the «Sangh» as a con-
tinuously expanding creature like some mutated ominous insect inside an ancient
cocoon—an insect that has mutated only to expand and eat everything it grabs but
never to come out of its shell. It does it so slowly but surely that although it is po-
tentially a great danger, nobody understands how perilous it is—one reason is that
nobody can see it. Some find it a playful big cocoon lying in a remote corner of the

Fanatical Hindu nationalist demonstrations are
organized by parties that belong to Sangh Parivar.
These demonstrations thus attract full support
from both the government and the opposition.