In Kashmir, we have a saying, at times attributed to the great poet Mahjoor (1887-1952), in the form of a lament of a sheep, that loosely translates as,” Only the faces of my butchers have changed – tools of oppression remain the same,”! I was...
Seven decades after the people of India gave to themselves a constitution guaranteeing certain additional fundamental rights to religious and linguistic minorities, the nation is struggling to know what constitutes a “minority”.