My name is Umendra Bharati, the campaigner tells the crowd. If I had said it was Umendra Pandey, I’d make the Pandits happy; if I’d said Umendra Singh, I’d make the Thakurs very happy; and if I called myself Umendra Aggarwal, the Baniyas would rejoice. But this is precisely the kind of identity politics that mainstream parties have used to divide us. I reject that. I’m the aam aadmi. The common man. My only identity is with the nation. A man takes out his camera, places his aam aadmi cap onto his wife’s head and takes a photograph.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 03:43:25 +0000
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