May the silent be damned
June 27, 2017 10:32
Away from hugs and bonhomie in foreign shores, in real India, where lynchings have become the norm, Pratap Bhanu Mehta's column is a must read.
"It is an irony that in an age defined by hype, the only hype that is condemned is one that tries to bring this violence to the centre of our attention. Dalits, Adivasis, increasingly minorities, are put in their place is also no longer an enabling moral insight. Instead of using this history to behove us to take this violence seriously, we use it simply as a way of deflecting attention," says the columnist. Read the full column here.
"It is an irony that in an age defined by hype, the only hype that is condemned is one that tries to bring this violence to the centre of our attention. Dalits, Adivasis, increasingly minorities, are put in their place is also no longer an enabling moral insight. Instead of using this history to behove us to take this violence seriously, we use it simply as a way of deflecting attention," says the columnist. Read the full column here.
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