Everyone bowed to the Big Man. He was glorified, deified even, with temples raised to him, as the embodiment of the nation.'
Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. His books include 'Why I Write', a translation of Saadat Hasan Manto's Urdu non-fiction (Tranquebar, 2014), 'Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is.
