Political tussle
A Prime Minister who is reluctant to find time to speak about Manipur has predictably sensed an issue of electoral dividend — by holding forth on Sanatana Dharma versus the INDIA bloc. Manipur is battling inequality, segregation, and hatred precisely as a result of the divisive prescription of the caste system that has been the bane of the country. The silence of the vast majority of our countrymen, the cynicism of seeing every conflict as a power game, robs us of our moral high ground on the international stage. One can only rue the carnage, feeling as William Wordsworth did, saying, ‘And much it grieved my heart to think. What man has made of man’.
R. Thomas Paul,
