 So I have many Muslim young colleagues who work with me and they've said their mothers tell them phone hai to salam alaikum nahi kahna Tupi nahi pehna, dhari nahi ugne dena If there's a fight on the train don't get involved if there's a political discussion never get involved Somebody will find out you're a Muslim. Fear is actually one of the building blocks of separation in that wall between people. So generations of young kids grow up You know not knowing the other at all. They don't interact with the other In Gujarat, they use a term Pakistan This idea that we should be guilty for something that real or imagined in the past or Or now that someone from my community has done I should be guilty of it. I'm amazed at first the moral Weakness of that argument but also its selectivity all of us who are upper caste should be living in shame every moment of our life And all men shouldn't even be alive for what they've done to women. There's no vicarious guilt For caste violence or gender violence. It's only this very selective Vicarious guilt for something that Babur is said to have done and may have done and may not have done This is Gandhi talking in 1947 He says that open gundaism that we see on the streets Cannot be possible without the subtle gundaism that lives in our hearts. And let's accept that We are addicted to this subtle gundaism It's not like it's not a crime at first But it's the first time That every one of the murderers and the oppressors Every one of the crimes is being heard by the tyrants and the vicarious and the vicarious The Hindu society has been given the habit of violence And the Hindu society is taught to take pleasure in violence It has been given the intoxication of violence This happens through the videos that are made By killing people, by beating people So that you can take full pleasure in it And then you can give other people the invitation to take pleasure in it I mean fraternity means coming together, the understanding of each other's ways of life It's a very basic requirement If that disappears then you will have only ghettos And ghettos are by their very nature dangerous for a democratic society such as we aspire to be But we should think that why are the political parties now unable to speak in such a language In which they can tell the Hindus that they are doing wrong Why is it happening that the political parties are not able to say that you can't defeat them in the name of a cow There are moments in history when it is more important to try to save the country than to fight elections We really have to demand that from our political leaders