But Gujaratis also know what it feels like to be hated, hunted. During the 1960 riots in Bombay, when the state was being broken in two and Gujarat and Maharashtra were both claiming the city, Maharashtrian mobs ran after Gujaratis in the streets with sticks shouting, ‘Soo che, saaru che, danda le ke maru che!’ Yes, we too were called termites once: illegal immigrants, told to go back to where we came from.
