Arindam, I agree to all your points and don’t dismiss the dire urgency to look deeper. In fact, that is the calling we all must acknowledge when engaging with others & ourselves, recognising the ego and dismissing. Only then, can we reach out to the humanity within us & others.

This article, written in the aftermath of the elections was the first reaction I had to a jarring reality I faced within my home. Don’t forget the personal is the political here. How one behaves within one’s most trusted circles opens pathways to amend one’s political & social contribution to the society.

Your comment is a befitting answer to all the trolls who commented on my post earlier. However, I’d urge you to not patronise me or anyone on the choice of sharing their personal experience. Your premature assumption of my ideaology, experience or knowledge, is unfortunately symptomatic of an ivory-tower intellectual mindset. What India is going through now needs all forms of resistance more than ever, in every space. The onslaught on democractic freedoms cannot be saved by introspective discussions. We need to resist, resist, resist until the point of that conversation. Because we are being choked of having a voice and identity in our own country. And unless you have a voice, you don’t matter.