Hardly has the furore over Telangana BJP’s Laxman’s ‘daughter-in-law’ comments against Sania Mirza died down, an RSS activist and columnist in Karnataka threatened a woman activist on Facebook with rape, simply because she has an opposite point of view. Earlier, Laxman was challenged by woman activists why his party got film star Pawan Kalyan as poster boy, who would be an ‘Australian son-in-law’ going by his logic, and if his ‘in-law’ view works only against woman! Laxman’s comments were as much anti-woman as communal, claimed critics. Now the Karnataka columnist goes a step ahead and embarrasses RSS, which quickly distanced itself from him with a press release. Police case has been lodged against V R Bhat, a columnist with Hosa Digantha, a Kannada daily, ...

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