@kaul_vivek Kaul saab, do you really believe in this Grand Explanation called Karma?
A dip in the ganga sangam at the right time will reset everything :-)
The mechanism is recognizable...target the books first, then the people who insist on reading them.
Anne Frank’s diary is a primary document of what happens when a society decides some lives and voices are expendable. Malala’s memoir is about a girl shot for wanting to go to school.
Treating either as radioactive material in a school library is anti-intellectual and anti-educational. It signals that discomfort with certain histories or female agency overrides the value of reading itself.
India is not 1930s Germany. But illiberal habits are spreading...When the state fines a school over optional library books and street groups then assault the people who object, the message is that the Liberal window is being narrowed by force.
Democracies die more often through a thousand small surrenders of principle, than through tanks in the streets.
The youth of india, who grew up with open internet access, global stories, and less deference to authority are often less willing to accept that a book should be removed because someone with a saffron scarf objects.
Defending the books does not require agreeing with every line Malala has ever said about Kashmir....it requires defending the principle that libraries & citizens, are not legitimate targets.
When that principle is abandoned, India, just becomes smaller, meaner, and less capable of honest thought...Jai Hind..🇮🇳