Choose Love, Delhi
Choose love Delhi (even on non-polling days), even, and especially, if our politicians don’t.
Photo of a page from Chapter 5 of ‘all about love’ by bell hooks. A quote, attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. is underlined, which reads “When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen the supreme unifying principle of life.”
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Delhi is going to polls today. I’ve only followed the campaign from a distance, but the little I have seen has been marred by politics of hate and exclusion.
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