A murder. And us.

Please let us understand that the deranged psychopath, Aftab Ameen Poonawala, who killed Shraddha Walkar was inspired by a fictional tv series and emboldened by his privilege.

Bringing either their relationship status or his political/ideological affiliations or their faiths into this is idiotic at best and insidious & mischievous at worst.

To repeat: Aftab killed Shraddha because he was a crazed, murderous maniac with a misplaced sense of entitlement and confidence that he could get away with it. He did not, and this bears repeating, kill her because of his or her environmental beliefs or religious faith or ideological differences or dietary preferences or relationship status or any other personality trait he or she may have possessed or lacked.

To claim that he killed her because he was Muslim (Bohras are probably shunned as apostates by the Sunnis; the Deobandis even have fatwas specifying that they aren’t to be considered Muslims; and so, this claim is doubtful) and she was Hindu (she was ST, a tribal; and as such, has a tenuous link to the claim of being a Hindu, but we can grant her that because her family says it is) is like the joke in which a man clapping loudly in Piccadilly Circus is accosted by a policeman, and offers the explanation that his clapping is keeping the tigers away, and when the bewildered policeman informs the person that he can’t see any (tigers), the clapper claims this, in fact, proves it (his clapping) is working. In short, there is no connection. Non sequitur. It does not follow.

But who’ll tell that to the ‘Hindu khatre mein hai’ gang? If anything, they are, and I am willing to bet on this, actually happy that Shradhha is dead. Because this gives them the ammunition, however paltry, that they sorely needed and were praying for.

Well, Aftab is the answer to their prayer. And Shraddha? Collateral damage.

Do you know what else is trending? Fridge jokes.