Before universal kinship becomes a relic of the past
I was feeling jittery this Holi, as the fortnight prior had brought news of communal clashes in two states. Is Holi, a festival of love and universal kinship, fast becoming a relic? I remember the 1980s, when I used to work in Varanasi and Allahabad (now Prayagraj). Those were my formative years as a journalist,…