October 12, 2015.

15 writers have returned Akademi awards, reports The Indian Express. Mint, which places freedom of markets ahead of freedom to talk and write, has an OurView piece: Dinkar in the time of the Dadri lynching. Me first read of the morning as Mint was stoning norms. English language press prefers Shakespeare to Arun Kolatkar, Rushdie to Daya Pawar. But Mint today has gone with Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, much despised fool Jawaharlal Nehru and freedom of words. Sipping coffee one brewed on Nehru today. That fool of grace today would have personally invited the writers to his home on a Sunday evening; offered ladies Sarah Joesph and Nayantara the chairs, seated the gentlemen, before taking the sofa, ordered French and Italian wines with smokes; for dinner there would be beef, pork, aloo paratha, vada and sambhar and fine talk. No hollering tyring to tell the audience Nehru is Boss. Said 'Sorry' and promised corrections as suggested by the diners. A devil tells me, in old fool Nehru times there would not have been any indecencies to dwell upon. Well, me is not sure as me reading of Indian history, paltry for sure, does not believe in a past or present tolerant India. India has always been intolerant. Vedic society was worked by Dalits, sudras and untouchables-- equivalent of African slaves in US. They were kept in holes. Vedic society could have only been violent. Then came, the Muslims, Christians, Parsis, British...Hindu-Muslim divide is perhaps older than the flow of Ganges and for joker Bapu a divide without a bridge. 1857 is the exception. Hindus and Muslims joined up under a Muslim emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar. Gandhi and Nehru couldnt make it in 1947 like Dhoni at Kanpur on Sunday. Perhaps, coconut land, Kerala (Travancore-Cochin), alone till date keeps all together: Jews, Muslims, Christians and never a riot till date; wonder why Parsis did not land up in Alleppey to provide business sense. Business in Kerala is generally run by Christians and Muslims, the spices export trade is with Gujubhais with little loyalty for Modi. Have not been able to glean the logic; maybe, a living together has no logic; one belongs. Future: Amit Shah has stepped in to throw stones in tranquil temple ponds.