gujarati world

God bless you Urvish Kothari for the clarity of thought with which you write every single time. If the Gunvant Shahs and Kanti Bhatts of Gujarat too possessed the same clarity of thought, you would not have had to write this over and over again and sound like a stuck record. But the tragedy is that they failed and failed ingloriously in not only identifying the evil within the mainstream thought then, but actually fanned the flames with their crude doublespeak.

Today, a single Urvish has to go on resisting because so many others caved in shamelessly, and in fact became fellow-travellers on BJP's road show. As for that new breed of Gujarati columnists who keep boasting about how brave they are and how popular they are (with the youth) and how widely read they are and how knowledgeable they are... well, some body must ask them that if they are all that they claim they are why don't they take a step back in cosying up with the CM's family, or think nothing about getting her blessings as foreword for their new releases. That is as disgusting as Mr Shah whitewashing the crimes of Vanzara.

Well, we have a long, long way to go before exorcising the ghost of 2002, not because the secular-liberal intelligentsia is trying to hold back on some demented idea of progress but because the civilised introspection that should have been the fate of every citizen in Gujarat is still a long time coming.

Muslim need to adopt double strategy of struggling for justice out of luxurious legal battle, secondly a dialogue process with pluralistic society, and thirdly, pondering on the issues which are hijacked by Government and majoratarian politics. Inspite of fixing game, we have to deliver as a citizen and challenge the biased machineries. In 2016, very few speaks of how tax payers are misguided with identity politics.