“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”

- American writer James Baldwin

COMMENT | In one way or another, political parties have failed the Indian community. Of course, the Indian community is a culturally diverse polity divided along class lines, so political parties as a shorthand to chart the course of the entire community was always a misguided effort.

While some have no qualms about self-identifying as “Indian”, many take exception at being lumped in with the general “Indian” community preferring to self-identify along cultural and language lines.

I suppose it is part pride and part escaping the homogeneity imposed by the state but whatever the reason, solidarity has always been a problem for the Indian community.

Talking about the Indian issue is an invitation to dive headfirst into the...