Each piece is so beautiful in its own way and every piece is so poignantly regretful about the way the promise of India--a secular, multicultural, pluralistic democracy--is sliding out of grasp.
The slide towards authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism in my country of birth (and my country of residence) makes me sad on a daily basis. I nearly cried when one of my cousins said that since everything is only about Hindu values now, we wouldn't have the friends--Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Parsi, communist, atheist, etc.--we'd had if we were growing up in India today.
I tried to share something from the PEN anthology, but how could I pick just one?
4 comments:
Oh, thank you so much for posting this!! I am going to go through it.
Very cool. So much to read.
I'm sorry about the encroaching authoritarianism in India (and here!) and the religious intolerance.
Nicole: It has Thrity Umrigar :)!
Gillian: I haven't finished it yet...
StephLove: It has been a long and disappointing arc. I often think about your belief that things will get better.
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