I am not sure what is more outrageous about the video clip in which a man in a red shirt, evidently a Hindu, is seen pushing another man, a Muslim, before flaying him with an axe and setting the body on fire.

Is it the savage and macabre manner in which a human life was taken or is it the chilling message that the red-shirted man left for Muslims and fellow Hindus in the videographed killing? The barbarity in Rajasthan’s Rajsamund surpasses the methods followed in abattoir kill floors.