The rise of purity across the globe

January 29, 2018 16:05

'All around the world, governments and would-be governments appear overwhelmed by complexity and are blindly unleashing the power of fission, championing quests for the pure. In India a politics of Hindu purity is wrenching open deep and bloody fissures in a diverse society. In Myanmar a politics of Buddhist purity is massacring and expelling the Rohingya. In the United States a politics of white purity is marching in white hoods and red baseball caps, demonising Muslims and Hispanic people, killing and brutalising black people, jeering at intellectuals, and spitting in the face of climate science,' writes Mohsin Hamid in The Guardian, the UK, here, in a piece adapted from his speech at the PEN International Free the World! at Winternachten 2018.

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