Narsi was thrown out of his community, the Nagars, which is also my community, because he would sit down and eat with anyone, Dalits, Muslims. His Vaishnavism had room for all humanity; it was all about humanity. Narsi was the true Gujarati. His disciple Mohandas Gandhi was also a true Gujarati. But the tradition of Narsi is being perverted today, because there’s another image of Gujarat, and Gujaratis, that the world sees today. It’s the Gujarat of Narendra Modi, not Narsi Mehta. And I belong to the Gujarat of Narsi, not Naren.
