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Strongmen-establishments, led by Trump, detest and mock the intelligentsia. Modi’s is no exception. For four years it’s been purging intellectuals from within. The strategic area had been cleared out early. After Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Panagariya, the premature departure of Arvind Subramanian completes the process in the economic establishment.
Daft as always, The Print guys!
In an employer- employee relationship, the employees do leave.
RR had completed his term and wanted RBI governership to be enhanced to Cabinet minister level, upon re-employment. So he left.
CEA left for 3 months ahead of his tenure.
Look at it from another prespective. Modi government persisted with bureaucrats like RR and CEA nominated by UPA regimes and you will write another editorial
But you will not do that for sure.
Cheers
Uneducated or under educated and with poor up bringing usually have disrespect to intellectual. Apart from Modi another who qualify is Smriti Irani. Remember the way she fired CBSC chief in front of gathering of School Principals ?
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist,Barnala(Punjab)
The intellectual cleansing of Modi govt is now complete !
~Intellectuals in Party-Mr.Lal Krishan Advani,Dr.Murli Manohar Joshi,Mr.Yashwant Sinha sidelined in first phase !
Mr.Raghuram Rajan,Mr. Arvind Panagaria and Arvind Subramanian eased out in second phase !
The exit of Arvinds’ square may turn into Arvind intellectuals’ cube !
The way things stand in Delhi in wake of political- bureaucratic turmoil,Mr.Arvind Kejriwal may be the next victim !
We all very well know that our honorable PM Modi is very fond of cleanliness ! He is a votary of consistent cleanliness
campaign ! Then how the question of completion of cleanliness programme arises becacuse it is endless in nature ?
Plato’s Republic very beautifully sums up the concept of flourishing states in these words:
” Those states only flourish where kings are philosophers, philosophers kings.”
Ironically, we need not worry because our PM Modi is two in one !
Why ?
It is so because he is a king as well as a philosopher !
Why to bother about intellectuals ?
Prof PK Sharma,Freelance Journalist
Pom Anm Nest,Barnala(Punjab)