Tripathi, who travels to different parts of India with a message of peace, handing out pamphlets in New Delhi. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
ONE recent morning, Roop Rekha Verma, an 80-year-old peace activist and former university leader, walked through a north Indian neighbourhood prone to sectarian strife and parked herself near a tea shop.
From her sling bag, she pulled out a bundle of pamphlets bearing messages of religious tolerance and mutual coexistence and began handing them to passersby.
