Suzanne Harrington: Politics is about mothers and daughters

I’M just back from a month in southern India, where all is lush, peaceful, and communist. In Kerala, this translates as higher literacy rates, greater gender equality, and less desperate poverty, rather than gulags and Stalinist pogroms. Like the rest of secular India, religion is everywhere; temples, mosques and churches tranquilly co-exist side by side. All gods are catered for.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the country, as the populist Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, welcomed his American counterpart, Donald Trump, dozens of people were slaughtered in Delhi. Muslim-owned shops and businesses were burned to the ground, in the worst violence for decades, reminiscent of the partition of 1947.