#GopalKrishnaGandhi, the grandson of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma) writes, ' Village streets, wells, ponds and crematoria go by caste designations. They may be used only by the ‘intended’. Though this sounds like an India correspondent of an American newspaper’s first dispatch, the fact is Hindus, Muslims and Dalits in live in our villages as close as any people can but also, worlds apart. “We have become strangers in our own land”…The words heard last week in Muzaffarnagar are an indictment of more than those who burnt, looted and murdered their Muslim neighbours. The country, a victim told our prime minister and UPA chairperson, was partitioned in 1947, now “our villages are getting partitioned.” This was a condemnation of the littleness of mind, the pettiness of heart and smallness of imagination that is afflicting us in all that we are doing, individually and as a people'.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 06:22:50 +0000