On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jon, I don't know where you live..but I have seen the miracle of my > country...India....being increasingly divided into fragments by the > politicians...and yet, we have a clear entity as India...I just cannot > understand how it works, but it does! > I think that this kind of identity-based politics is imperative for India's survival. Whether identity came first or identity politics is not a chicken-and-egg kind of question. Identity definitely came first, and it is practical for our politics to reflect it.
