A nation without common decency, common practicality and basic compassion. (Source: PTI Photo) A nation without common decency, common practicality and basic compassion. There is a real danger that India will be “too late.” Martin Luther King once wrote, “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilisations are written the pathetic words ‘too late.’” The question after Gorakhpur is: Is India at 70 too late, too late not for false glory, but to recover its own humanity?

Source: Indian Express August 14, 2017 19:21 UTC