Absolute honor to meet my BHR icon and Public Intellectual Salil Tripathi ji in Mumbai.
I have been privileged to read and follow his writings and activist work in the realm of BHR for many years. I had written an article for IHRB a couple of years back as well in the Dhaka Principle series with Adrian Pereira Sir.
The conversation was piercing and eclectic with the great Ratna Pathak Shah, who quipped that one can find Gujarati signage’s in Wembley in England rather than in Mumbai which is a Gujarati speaking city. Bombay or South Bombay Gujarati is different from the one spoken in Amdavad or Surat.
The linguistic competition to Gujarati is from Hindi rather than English as Czech faces encroachment from Russian. The short time was nothing short of a masterclass. The audience comprised of the culture elite of Bombay, I think I saw Dolly Thakore and a few popular faces.
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