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Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World
By
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7539-5
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Lunch with a Bigot
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Published:April 2015
In this chapter, the author describes his meeting with a man who had put him on a hit-list. This man, Mr. Barotia, was a member of an ultra-right-wing Hindu group, and offended that the author had married a Muslim. Mr. Barotia was proud of the killings of Muslims in Gujarat. The author disliked Mr. Barotia and his views but also saw a part of himself, and his own provincial past, in Mr. Barotia’s prejudices.
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