This Article was published ‘Inquilab’ Urdu daily on Aug. 13, 2020.
The key arguments in the article are that the cloud of threats hovering over India is more dangerous than corona-virus. Corona will go sooner or later but the politics based on majoritarianism, religiosity, depriving the marginalized communities of whatever little they have won from the state is threatening the fabric of country.
A brief view of the national movements is given in the article. It is argued that those who were nowhere in the anti-colonial struggles are today teaching us the lesson of nationalism.
Those who have difficulty in reading Urdu, can still access the article. Open the link and listen to the video in which the text is read out.
Author of this article Abhay Kumar is a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is broadly interested in Minority Rights and Social Justice. Earlier, he held a Post-Graduate Diploma in English Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi and worked as a reporter with ‘The Indian Express’. You can reach him at: debatingissues@gmail.com
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this article are the personal views of the author and not necessarily the views of “Voice of Dissent”.
