Harsh Mander: Will the India of ‘messy diversity’ and shared togetherness be lost in time?

The divide over Diwali as an exclusively Hindu festival has deepened every year. “Battle at Lanka, Ramayana”, by Sahib Din. Udaipur, 1649-1653. | in public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. It was the evening before Diwali. Dusk was just falling. A friend, returning from his evening walk, saw a man lighting firecrackers with his young son. On…