23. Separate National Identity:

En-route to a mass rally to be held at Kharangan, Wardha District, in connection with the Non-Cooperation movement of 1930, Doctorjee met a Muslim leader of the movement wearing a Turkish cap in the bus. Curious, he asked the leader as to why he was wearing a Turkish cap (and not a Gandhi cap) on his way to address the rally as its highest local leader.

The Muslim gentleman smiled and said: "Keshavarao, this Turkish cap is a symbol of our Muslim Nationality, our identity. How can we abandon it?".

Doctorjee had come to the unambiguous conclusion that seeking support from those who had separatist National Aspirations, in India's freedom struggle, was as futile as chasing a marriage. This incident just proved it to him again.

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