18-year-old Sana Ganguly shared an excerpt from Khushwant Singh’s novel- The End of India
With the police crackdown in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University and on CAA protestors resulting in widespread agitation across the country, BCCI chief and former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly’s daughter Sana took to Instagram and shared a relevant excerpt from Khushwant Singh’s ‘The End of India’ (published in 2003), voicing her dissent.
The excerpt read, “Every fascist regime needs communities and groups it can demonize in order to thrive. It starts with one group or two. But it never ends there. A movement built on hate can only sustain itself by continually creating fear and strife.
“Those of us today who feel secure because we are not Muslims or Christians are living in a fool’s paradise. The Sangh is already targeting the Leftist historians and “Westernized” youth.”
“Tomorrow it will turn its hate on women who wear skirts, people who eat meat, drink liquor, watch foreign films, don’t go on annual pilgrimages to temples, use toothpaste instead of danth manjan, prefer allopathic doctors to vaids, kiss or shake hands in greeting instead of shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. No one is safe. We must realize this if we hope to keep India alive,” her Instagram story read.
BCCI President @SGanguly99‘s daughter Sana Ganguly just won my heart by this post. Incredible maturity from an 18 year old. pic.twitter.com/wQN5eyfY6G
— Aparna (@chhuti_is) December 17, 2019
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