Anti-Minority Sentiments Have Only Worsened Since Indira Gandhi Era
Expansionism dreams, anti-minority-ism, and scant respect for the right to dissent against political crimes have peaked and are far worse now, and I don’t see any leader today utter words such as these: “Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.”
I’ll quote Ghalib here:
“rag-e-sang se tapakta woh lahu ki fir na thamta
jise gham samajh rahe ho, ye agar sharaar hota”.
(The blood that drips from the veins of stone will not cease / What you think of as grief should have been a spark.)
(Farzana Versey is a Mumbai-based writer. She tweets at @farzana_versey. This is an opinion piece and the views expressed are the author’s own. The Quint neither endorses nor is responsible for them.)