A new report finds a 74% rise in hate speech in 2024 over the previous year, with more than a fifth of these speeches from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah and the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Assam, Yogi Adityanath and Himanta Biswa Sarma. No action was taken against them. As hate speech is normalised, a reluctant police force ignores even Supreme Court orders and a slow judicial system, staffed by a number of biased judges, makes accountability for hate crime difficult.