The Experiment

[To appear in Mainstream Weekly]

The Experiment

by Mukul Dube

One of the first things that came to mind when I read and heard about the recent violence in Muzaffarnagar was the many parallels with Gujarat in 2002. As I heard and read more, it became increasingly difficult to deny that history was repeating itself.

I was visited by a no longer young woman whom I had taught thirty-five years