2020 India Failed To Call Out Thali-banging For What It Was Called In 1992 Maharashtra - Propagation Of Superstition And Murder of Scientific Temper
Monsoons evaded Maharashtra in 1992. In a country where even today agriculture is largely dependent on rains, this naturally made people distraught then. In this helplessness, blankness, in this void came Maharashtra governor's appeal other rather a dictate. On a particular day at 11 am, people were to collectively pray. Authorities jumped in to enforce the governor's appeal. Directions were announced left, right and centre. And pray people did.