It is worth noting that in more ways than one, the ‘love jihad’ law stems from the perception that a woman’s “honour” is the responsibility of the men around her – in this case, the state authorities.

Jahan, an actor-turned-politician married to businessman Nikhil Jain, has found herself at the centre of communal controversies often.

The executives have been charged by the Rewa Police in Madhya Pradesh, following a complaint by Gaurav Tiwari, national secretary of BJP’s youth wing.

The concept of ‘love jihad’ primarily pivots around interfaith Hindu-Muslim relations that believers claim is a way for the latter religion to forcefully convert Hindus to Islam on the pretext of love/marriage.

Have we, as a country, become a bunch of bullies that will beat down anyone or anything that doesn’t conform to a single ideology? Is the public now so impulsive as to engage in physical violence over and above reasoned arguments?

Are we today so blinkered by hyper-nationalist agendas that we have forgotten what it was to be peaceful?

“My mantra is to ignore the negativity,” Nusrat Jahan had earlier said about online bullying.