A game of identities | Books
The book engages with allegations and cliches that come from conflating nationalism, religion and culture.
About 25 years ago, a friend named Dilip Raote announced he would learn to read Urdu. I asked him why. To understand what Urdu newspapers were writing about, he said, and therefore what Muslims were interested in. A few months later, I asked him how he was progressing. Raote said he was no longer interested in pursuing it. He explained: "Urdu newspapers carry
