This 71-year-old former IIT professor braves nasty abuse and bitter hate as he walks around Delhi distributing pamphlets that educate people on issues such as Kashmir, NRC and Ayodhya.
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00:00He is saying that whatever he is distributing, it will be on my dead body.
00:03And then he says, don't abuse.
00:06Don't abuse.
00:20I feel that we need to go to the people and remove their prejudices from their minds.
00:30And I decided that I will try to develop a grassroots resistance against sectarianism
00:40by going to the people.
00:41And we chose education as an instrument to reach out to the masses.
01:00We are doing a political PhD.
01:03What is the use of that?
01:05Have you heard of Harvard University?
01:07Harvard University?
01:08Have you heard of Harvard University?
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01:30Two weeks, three weeks ago, when I was distributing flyers in Delhi, somebody came and he took
01:40away my flyers and said, Who sent you?
01:46For whom are you distributing these flyers?
01:48I told him, these are my own flyers.
01:52Then he was very abusive and threatened that if you are not old, I will shoot you.
01:59I think this kind of polarization is very harmful for the unity of the nation.
02:30Well, the triggering point for my campaign against Communalism was Bhagalpur riots,
02:37in which 950 people were killed, about 50 Hindus and remaining Muslims.
02:47All governments have elements that I don't like. This government also has elements that I don't like.
03:03And especially the focus on militarism, that I will solve the problem through the excessive use of army or force,
03:12that kind of policy is not good.