Commutiny Media Features

by Akshaya Kumar

Tarun Tejpal wrote about the first comprehensive Outlook survey on Sex in 1994, “It is a gauge of our—Indian—social insularity and insecurity that we baulk from facing up to this most central of issues—I can think of another equally important one that we duck: communalism—and generally spend our public lives brandishing the simplistic and faux morality of adolescents.” He discussed Sex there. Let us here take up this ‘another equally important one’ : Communalism.