We were young then. But we should have been taught better. We should have been able to absorb better. We were enclaved. If I feel helpless or angry or despondent now about the scenes in those Bombay precincts that I’ve spent most of my life in, I feel so too about the world we grew up in. If our response now is to further enclave ourselves, the Bombay tragedy will have been all the more monumental, the terrorists all the more successful.
Rahul Bhattacharya is the author of ‘Pundits from Pakistan’