People with skewed sense of fairness - being fair to everybody, in their words - are being so unfair to some and they don't see the kind of harm that does to both the wronged and the beneficiary,
A question a 'pseudo-secular' is faced-with generally is why all 'your' intellectuals are protesting only now. Weren't there problems before? There definitely were and people protested, may be to no avail many a times. But the difference is that now you are losing the right to protest itself. People want you to talk and even worse, think in line with the establishment. You cannot even remain neutral; you must choose your side and only their side. They cannot accept anything otherwise. So like with any belief under threat, others are wearing the symbols all the more, sometimes looking paranoid in the process.
When I read my books, Anu reads some passages with me and it's becoming a habit with her. I don't know if she'll recognise Raskolnikovs and Alyoshas when she grows up. I wonder what her books will be and what she will call history.
When Hanumanthappa was battling for life, Sagarika Ghose wrote, "your country is praying for you" and people promptly asked her if she was from Pakistan. I think for once, Sagarika would've had the last laugh.
A question a 'pseudo-secular' is faced-with generally is why all 'your' intellectuals are protesting only now. Weren't there problems before? There definitely were and people protested, may be to no avail many a times. But the difference is that now you are losing the right to protest itself. People want you to talk and even worse, think in line with the establishment. You cannot even remain neutral; you must choose your side and only their side. They cannot accept anything otherwise. So like with any belief under threat, others are wearing the symbols all the more, sometimes looking paranoid in the process.
When I read my books, Anu reads some passages with me and it's becoming a habit with her. I don't know if she'll recognise Raskolnikovs and Alyoshas when she grows up. I wonder what her books will be and what she will call history.
When Hanumanthappa was battling for life, Sagarika Ghose wrote, "your country is praying for you" and people promptly asked her if she was from Pakistan. I think for once, Sagarika would've had the last laugh.
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