Manipur and musings
The ongoing violence and civic unrest in Manipur are most unfortunate. There could be many socio-political crosscurrents in play there, be they of ethnicity or any other. What is troubling is that churches are being pulled down as illegal construction. The scene would shift to Kerala where, in contrast, Christians are being avidly wooed. If the former is called for in pursuit of the cause of righteous civic administration, the latter, perhaps, is as much for an equitable and inclusive governance. And then, across the seas, we are witness to a practising Hindu Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, reciting from the Bible on a king’s coronation. The temporal and the spiritual would lack the viscosity of the secular that readily takes the shape of the vessel in which it is poured.
R. Narayanan,
