When silence is not golden…

Hindustan Times | BySeema Goswami

Jun 30, 2018 08:36 PM IST

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If you hear someone say something bigoted, speak up!

Sitting down to dinner at a Chinese restaurant with another couple (social acquaintances rather than old friends) a month or so ago, I was looking forward to the Peking duck with all the trimmings. But even as the mains were served, the conversation took an unexpected turn.

No matter how embarrassing it may be for you and others in the group, blatant bigotry should not go unchallenged(Photo Imaging: Parth Garg)

Swimming in the maelstrom of emotions that her throwaway remark had aroused, I failed to find the words to indicate my horror and disgust at her casual communalism

We may not be directly responsible for the bigotry that is taking over our civil society, but we are certainly complicit in its spread because of our decision to disengage