Sense and sensitivity

Kaveree Bamzai
These are disconcerting times. The other day I took an auto with my elder son, yet to turn 11. He whispered that the driver was wearing a headscarf. “So?” I asked. “He’s a Muslim,” he said in an agonised voice.

Every day, in every way, Muslims are being seen as the other. A discourse once restricted to Pravin Togadia is now every urban parent’s nightmare.

In a world where students as young as 10 are learning to live with weekly school visits by bomb disposal squads and children younger than that are learning that tiffin boxes can be time bombs, the “us versus them” is no longer an issue of people like them. It is a question staring people like us. In the face. At point-blank range.

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