Famously trenchant political psychologist Ashis Nandy is charged with criminal offence by the Gujarat police for "inflaming" communal hatred. His crime: an article he wrote in January blaming Gujarat's middle-class Hindus for destroying communal harmony in the state. In an interview with Sheela Reddy, Nandy lashes out at Gujarat's NRI-inspired culture of hate and what it's doing to the national fabric.
Why did an article blaming Gujarat's middle class for the Hindu-Muslim divide anger Narendra Modi?
Is this assault on freedom of expression in Gujarat recent?
Was the article inflammatory as the complaint suggests?
Is the middle class more culpable than Modi in drawing the battleline between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat?
So any critic of Narendra Modi is a traitor?
Why do you see this as a government-inspired action ?
Where do you think this is going?
