Sadhvi Pragya, a member of parliament from Bhopal, while ago in a media interaction said Nathuram Godse; the man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi was a patriot. This ignited a huge nationwide controversy causing the Prime minister to say that he'll never be able to forgive Pragya. Despite this, every day we hear influential leaders from political parties having their share of ridiculous and absurd statements. Is this just the meaningless blabber of extremist leaders or is something dangerous? The new normal What if I had told you a couple of decades ago that in this very country, the killing of Mahatma Gandhi will be celebrated, or a union minister would honor the murder accused with garlands, or someone with terrorism charges will become a member of parliament? All this would have seemed a little too far-fetched but as of now all the aforementioned has already happened and most of the nation's population appears to be fine with it. Today you hear political l...