Isn’t it time we rose above past events and their wretched consequences? And what can a majority community do to make a minority one feel welcome? What can India’s second largest majority community do as their bit towards a genuine peace process? The biggest gesture I can think of is, please let us welcome each other properly to our House of God. Churches and gurdwaras have something to give Hindus and Muslims here. Also, besides mullahs teaching Muslims to live at theological peace with Hindus, the custodians of saints’ shrines could rethink letting women in close to the grave. In small but significant steps? Perhaps have ‘Ladies Only’ hours at certain convenient times so that homebound women can properly visit the pir they cherish? It would be a huge positive signal to the public. Likewise, I think civil society itself...
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