INTERVIEW | “I am shaken, but not crushed”: Rajmohan Gandhi
2 years, 4 months ago

INTERVIEW | “I am shaken, but not crushed”: Rajmohan Gandhi

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 14, 2022 06:00 IST - 10 MINS READ Rajmohan Gandhi’s India After 1947 appears just as the government launches its celebrations around 75 years of Independence. What will raise India’s standing and restrain India’s enemies, wherever they might exist, is not a muscular, aggressive or divisive Ram, but a united nation where Indians trust one another and cooperate with one another. In 1947, great killings accompanied Partition, especially in both halves of Punjab, yet every student of that year’s tragic events also finds that protectors from the “other” side vastly outnumbered killers from that side. I have already offered the thought that two things might contribute to a change: India’s keenness to belong to the world, and our Indian dislike of being ordered about by fellow Indians.

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