More than fifteen districts of Gujarat worked as if they were one body mass. One fever. One ball of hate. It moved Hindu majoritarianism from an idea hovering on the political fringe to the center stage.

'We are often proud of things that we have absolutely no control over. That we have not decided. For instance, I did not decide to be born in a Hindu household.' The audience would go silent. Pranav went on, 'And this is the beginning of most of our problems in this world. They are based on choice-less identities. Hardly any of our conflicts are centered on choice-based identities.'