Plurality is the essence of Indian civilisation and it will not survive if plurality and openness are sabotaged, eminent poet and literary critic Ashok Vajpeyi has said.
The ‘idea of India’ had not only been plural in nature, but the dynamic idea was plurally created and evolved by many sections, many religions, and many people. Nothing was singular here. So the thrust on uniformity was absurd, he said while speaking on the sidelines of the International Literature Festival of Kerala here on Monday.
