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A panel of jurors Nandan Nilekani, Sanjay Reddy, Jaithirth Rao, Arvind Subramanian, and Montek Singh Ahluwalia separately nominated a list of economic thinkers as part of ThePrint's list of India's next-gen intellectuals.
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When Israelis pushed out Arabs in 1948, they didn’t think that embittered refugees would turn into a permanent threat to their new state. This was a catastrophic miscalculation.
ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.
Really well expressed. Unless the intelligentsia in India becomes bold and impartial, willing to pass any thought or view, irrespective of whom it comes from, through crucible tests, they will not be seen as on par with thought processes of the developed world.
Our education system should inculcate this habit of thought and expression among the young from an early age.
Can’t say if I qualify as an intellectual, although my Twitter biodata refers to me as an armchair intellectual, but I ONLY care about facts. Not fiction or fairy tales, which fill up so much of public discourse nowadays.
Finally, a much needed introspection. Intellecyltualisation can also be a gateway escapism to personal and political reality. This happens across the ideologies.
Who are “intellectuals’?! You have put ‘intellectual’ and ‘soros conspiracy theorists’ in the same line! As of now, the ones who blame Nehru and soros for everything hate the word “intellect” and would swear to God that all the problems in the world are due to these ‘intellectuals’ ( I mean apart from Nehru).
Really well expressed. Unless the intelligentsia in India becomes bold and impartial, willing to pass any thought or view, irrespective of whom it comes from, through crucible tests, they will not be seen as on par with thought processes of the developed world.
Our education system should inculcate this habit of thought and expression among the young from an early age.
Can’t say if I qualify as an intellectual, although my Twitter biodata refers to me as an armchair intellectual, but I ONLY care about facts. Not fiction or fairy tales, which fill up so much of public discourse nowadays.
Finally, a much needed introspection. Intellecyltualisation can also be a gateway escapism to personal and political reality. This happens across the ideologies.
Who are “intellectuals’?! You have put ‘intellectual’ and ‘soros conspiracy theorists’ in the same line! As of now, the ones who blame Nehru and soros for everything hate the word “intellect” and would swear to God that all the problems in the world are due to these ‘intellectuals’ ( I mean apart from Nehru).