The land of Tagore is suffering from a famine of conscience (vivek ka akaal) or else there would have been massive protests against the National Register of Citizens, journalist Ravish Kumar told a city audience on Saturday. “Bengal was hit by a devastating famine in 1943 that killed lakhs.… The signals of another famine are visible. This famine is being brought about by a register called the National Register of Citizens,” Kumar said while delivering the Rituparno Ghosh Memorial Lecture 2019, organised by Pratyay Gender Trust. Nobody told him that he is not the home minister of India minus 15 crore Muslims,” Kumar told the audience. The auditorium of Basusree cinema near Kalighat was packed and Ravish Kumar was flooded with questions.

Source: The Telegraph October 19, 2019 20:03 UTC