Ever since Jeet Singh returned after attending his neighbour’s daughter’s wedding in his village near Muzaffarnagar, he’s been unusually thoughtful. Readers might be excused for thinking that Singh experienced something earthshaking when he was in his village — but all Singh has done is attend a meatless wedding feast. The other day, when he narrated his story to me, I wondered how something so trivial could evoke such existential angst in him. My amazement was compounded when I learned that Singh was a strict vegetarian. Why then, did the vegetarian wedding bother him so?
His neighbours, he said, were Muslim, and
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