To be Indian is to be Hindu, the BJP has instructed us, in a way that mutilates both categories. To be Indian is to be Hindu, the BJP has instructed us, in a way that mutilates both categories. When a late 19th-century Englishman used the word “human”, he most often meant “Englishman” or, at most, “European”. It splintered into a variety of political identities, to do with class, race, gender, and postcolonial difference, which the word “human” had once enveloped and muffled. All these cultural energies have gone into creating the new humanism we’re seeing taking birth on the street.

Source: Indian Express January 24, 2020 19:06 UTC