“And as nothing in India occurs uniquely, even this motif appears in more than one Ramayana.”
—Ramanujan, ‘Three Hundred Ramayanas’
WHEN YOU CONSIDER the great value placed in a democracy, both normatively and nominally, on diversity and on multiculturalism, to hear that diversity threatens, that multiplicity taunts, or that multitudes are unruly, unknowable and unpredictable sounds strange. We’re told to believe in the will of “the people” and are made to listen to paeans about our differently cut, brightly hued diverse clothing.
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