Gujarat Burns Again

Gujarat Burns Again Asghar Ali Engineer Tanushri 'GUJARAT burns again', 'Maharashtra engulfed in communal fire', 'Allahabad up in flames', 'UP sitting atop heap of communal gunpowder' are some of the recent headlines in newspapers. Caste and communal hatred has completely gripped us and there seems to be no way out. Our constitutional secularism is being torn to shreds and we have to wring our hands in despair. Com- munalists of all hues have built up a powerful propaganda machinery and they are operating it most efficiently and to its full capacity. The voice of the secularists on the other hand is nothing but a voice' in the wilderness. The politicians mouthing secular slogans are hypocrites, to say the least. They will thunder in favour of secularism in their public speeches and perpetrate the worst kind of casteism and communalism in their electoral politics.