Why should we allow
them here? “Who are these people? Why are they here?”
On Sundays, Gandhi
Bazar, a market place in Perumbavoor, a satellite town of Kochi, speaks in the
tongues of India’s east—Bengali, Assamese and Oriya. An old man who runs a
roadside shop outside the Bazar examines the swelling crowd and its languages
and wonders if his hometown will turn into a Bangladesh before he dies.
Along with many others
in the town, Bangladesh has become a legitimised expleti