Even if, for argument’s sake, this point is conceded, it would have been interesting if Modi had dwelt on the teachings of Buddha’s disciple Emperor Asoka about tolerance — “one should listen to and respect the doctrines professed by others” — when a BJP MP, Viy Katiyar, was reiterating M.S. Golwalkar’s diktat about Muslims having no right to live in India when they have carved out of the subcontinent two homelands for themselves — West Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Pakistan and Bangladesh.