Leave aside the questionable ethics of seeing victims of mob violence as "our victims, your victims" (to quote Yadav). What about the damage done by such politics? Isn't it clear as day that such one-sided sharing of grief only drives victims into the arms of those claiming to represent them based on their identity alone, who see them as faceless victims whose tragedy must be
1984, 1989, 2002: Three Narratives of Injustice, and the Lessons for Democracy
Why is it that mass injustice in the face of mass communal crimes has become such an established pattern of state practice in modern India?
Representative image of a rioting mob. Photo: Reuters
February 8 is the birth anniversary of Zakir Husain
The following is a speech delivered by Siddharth Varadarajan at the XXVII Zakir Husain Memorial Lecture on February 24, 2015.
The man whom we are honouring today was not just the president of India, nor was he merely a politician of deep distinction and rare integrity. Above all, Dr Zakir Husain was a passionate educationist who had a full measure of just how liberating the idea of a university can be.