Shadows of new violence

Only a society having massive, unresolved problems of violence can produce so many ico-nic philosophers and sages of non-violence — from Mahavir and Buddha to Nanak, Kabir and Gandhi. But even their readings of violence have to be updated and revalidated. The violence we think we understand and on which urban, expensively-educated, modern Indians pontificate endlessly are well known. Such violence is mostly found in rural India and in urban pockets like slums and ghettos...

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