And yet, we mourn the absence of a moral force in our polity. We mourn the fact that in our identity-based politics, we are allowed to speak for an increasingly narrow group. We are at a loss to fathom how to resolve the desire for greater industrial progress with the demand of farmers that land as a way of life cannot be compensated through money. We are numbed by the violence that we perpetrate on each other. And yet we do not see Gandhi as a possibility.
The writer is a social scientist based in Ahmedabad
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