Gyanvapi Mosque Case: "More Than Faith, This Is About Truth..." Says Author Amish Tripathi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWtDu-hQlZs Truth can be the only disinfective? May 17, 2022
The interim Supreme Court judgment on the Gyanvapi mosque case today spoke of balance - but where is the balance between devotion and an act of Parliament? Should we carry on digging up the past? Amish Tripathi, Author and director of The Nehru Centre elaborates on what he makes of the mandir-masjid dispute.
Amish Tripathi’s platitudes on Gyanvapi are built on a denial of India’s harsh truths Dilip D’Souza https://scroll.in/article/1024390/truth-as-a-disinfectant-amish-tripathis-platitudes-ignore-the-lived-reality-of-many-indians The author’s view that India is ‘a decent liberal country’ glosses over the brutalities inflicted on fellow Indians.
Tripathi does not advocate any hatred, certainly. Is he doing what he can to quench the hatred that burns inside Shambhulal Regar and so many like him? This hatred that maims and kills too many Indians? Second, it is not just about quenching hatred. Faced with questions about incidents like these and what they say about India, Tripathi says he likes to “look at the data”. It tells him that “across the entire Indian subcontinent, there are only two countries where the proportion of minorities as a percentage of the population has actually gone up in the last 70 years, and one of them is India.”
Comment: Very interesting is the narrative that we have a dharmic nation, and perhaps that we need to address truth that are in that time frame. Mr Tripathi says that for seventy years we seems to be having bucking the trend in other countries where the numbers of people in the minority is reducing showing that we have been a liberal country and that is why a Rohingya would actually prefer to be in India rather than.. a few steps away.. . Perhaps for seventy years that was the trend.. But can this be said about India in the last few years, particularly since 2019?