Suddenly the right to shriek, "Look, what they did to us", is no longer the monopoly of the victims of Partition, or Antulay and his ilk. Everybody in 2008, it seemed, was entitled to his own, personalised, custom-made notion of victimhood. So, Hindus felt victimised by the Maharashtra ATS. Kashmiri Muslims felt victimised by the thought of Amarnath pilgrims getting a good night’s sleep. IT-BT Kannadigas felt victimised by Biharis stealing class IV railway jobs. And so on.
It stands to reason, therefore, that the terror attack on their watering holes should leave the bold and the botoxified of south Bombay feeling victimised by wily politicians, who in turn felt victimised by the media, whose mavens felt victimised by Facebook groups. India now feels victimised by Pakistan, which feels victimised by, well, itself.
The US census bureau forecasts that by 2042, the biggest cities in America will largely comprise minorities. Whining India has beaten it to the honour by a full 33 years, our discourse now dominated by finger-wagging majorities agonising over wounds, more imagined than real.
