December 9 Please join my co-author Joy Ma and me as the MP and celebrated author Shashi Tharoor engages us in a conversation about our book, "The Deoliwallahs"! This is part of the Jaipur Literature Festival's ongoing "Brave New World" series of book events.
Here's a passage in Tharoor's new book, "*THE BATTLE OF BELONGING: On Nationalism, Patriotism, And What it Means to Be Indian*", that speaks of our book: --- But India, too, had an episode that was just as disgraceful: *The Deoliwallahs* by Joy Ma and Dilip D’Souza is the story of Chinese–Indians, most born in this country, who were incarcerated in detention camps shortly after the 1962 Sino–Indian war as potential fifth columnists, and only released more than four years later, in 1967.102 This marked the first time since the adoption of the Indian Constitution that neither birth nor belonging, nor roots or livelihood were deemed sufficient to accord nationality in India: these thousands of innocents were detained for no other reason than that their ethnicity made them suspect—just as today, to some unsavoury nationalists, Muslim Indians’ religion is deemed to raise questions about their entitlement to be regarded as citizens of India on a par with others. --- 830pm IST today, December 9 (7am PST, 10am EST, 3pm GMT). Tune in here: https://youtu.be/-3gvxXILxlE cheers, dilip -- My book with Joy Ma: "The Deoliwallahs" Twitter: @DeathEndsFun Death Ends Fun: http://dcubed.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dilip's essays" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dilips-essays+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dilips-essays/CAEiMe8o5NjU3Z%2B0TgZfAG8p_bzDF8u94E%2BYL%2B1uy9WOJBNOf1A%40mail.gmail.com.