If we Hindus think the Lingayats were socially and culturally part of Hinduism, then a government act shouldn’t stop us from treating Lingayats as our equals.
Preface: This is an essay I wrote for myself, earlier this year. I’m not sure how much of this argument below is true. I’ve often been skeptical of the left-right ideological spectrum and believe that the range of political ideologies is much more diverse and complex. Still, the idea of a…
(This is an essay I wrote for myself, last year, immediately after Rohith’s death. Including it, unchanged, here)
This week, another person killed themselves. Suicide is common enough — a regular newspaper reader will encounter reports almost everyday. Here, in India, suicide is coming…
We sit around, speaking silence, in verandahs and living rooms,
We sit around, speaking silence, at office canteens and board room meetings,
where silence, formed by empty words, are uttered from lips with nothing to say,
I can offer my own piece as a response. https://medium.com/other-opinions/to-hold-complex-ideas-together-fe6b6c92eae9#.p282dx8ms
To elaborate, I believe that taking a stand should not be the same as taking a side. While my loyalty stands with India, it does so because I believe in the idea of a democratic republic as…
I recently read a brilliant article on the history of civil rights in the US, where the author talked about how black Americans spent generations “holding complex ideas together”.
