We live in an age when the whole country looks to the judiciary to keep the legislative and the executive branches in check. Should we allow political parties to win judges over to their side?
It used to be Tatas and Birlas in the loose political rhetoric of the 1970s and the 1980s. Today, it is Adani and Ambani in the heated Lok Sabha election campaign.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.
By the time, bjp will reach Tamil or Bengal, Hinduvta will loose currency among heartland hindus …
Crony capitalism + Gentrification of economy + tiny welfarism is too tenuous to hold …. and “corruption free” as post facto justification Great Indian Middle class use as excuse for voting bjp has already been gone post electoral bond fiasco ….
And if economy becomes as expansive as UPA era growth was , elites will not need nationalism to legitimise their position …
BJP & Hinduvta’s success lies in economic slowdown post 2008 crisis as elites faced legitimacy crisis of their ” growth” narrative leading to substitution of economic narrative with nationalism + cultura ” Glorious past “…
West Bengal indeed need political catharsis sort of change … where party-society of Marxists has become warlordism under TMC regime , TMC bhadraloks outsources violence, coercion to strongmen….
If imagination permits, redemption of Bengal from bhadrolok-infused Communist dirigisme & Warlordism lies in dismantling Bhadrolokism altogether….Not by wedding it to Hinduvta for which other commentator in this space ( Pratap Mandal) sheds greater clarity ….
Deep Haldar & Hindol Sengupta this two are somewhat reasonable persons in hinduvta intellectual universe… no surprise they are Bengalis…they were liberals then become hinduvtawadis & still shows some minimal commitment to cognitive & moral grit for which whole legions of hinduvta intellectuals from Sampat to Sai have no qualm..
For example , Hindol Sengupta few days ago rebuked the utterly nihilist proposition of “reclaiming” 10000 temples from mosques by some utilitarian arguments “mass prosperity will not come without mass peace” or rubbished the theory of “western invention” of caste in india
Deep Haldar also belongs to same catagory of ” Liberal hinduvta ” , I suppose . As Prashant Kishor said , direction of Hinduvta is towards more radicalism ( Vajpey > Modi > Yogi )… In any way , moral claim of hinduvta intellectuals is that they are not worse than what their potential is …!!!
This ” Bhadrolok hinduvta ” is reiteration of such ” liberal hinduvta” which is de facto oxymoron … Hindu nationalism will always need occasional burst of Hindu communalism….
To think , there can be Liberal version of this (By Haldar or Sengupta) & Vile Ramesh Bunduri is part of ” fringe elements” is utter nonsense & deliberate self -fooling …
As I said , moral claim of hinduvta is that they are not worse than what their ultimate potential is???
By the time, bjp will reach Tamil or Bengal, Hinduvta will loose currency among heartland hindus …
Crony capitalism + Gentrification of economy + tiny welfarism is too tenuous to hold …. and “corruption free” as post facto justification Great Indian Middle class use as excuse for voting bjp has already been gone post electoral bond fiasco ….
And if economy becomes as expansive as UPA era growth was , elites will not need nationalism to legitimise their position …
BJP & Hinduvta’s success lies in economic slowdown post 2008 crisis as elites faced legitimacy crisis of their ” growth” narrative leading to substitution of economic narrative with nationalism + cultura ” Glorious past “…
West Bengal indeed need political catharsis sort of change … where party-society of Marxists has become warlordism under TMC regime , TMC bhadraloks outsources violence, coercion to strongmen….
If imagination permits, redemption of Bengal from bhadrolok-infused Communist dirigisme & Warlordism lies in dismantling Bhadrolokism altogether….Not by wedding it to Hinduvta for which other commentator in this space ( Pratap Mandal) sheds greater clarity ….
Post Script:- Myself Bengali..
Deep Haldar & Hindol Sengupta this two are somewhat reasonable persons in hinduvta intellectual universe… no surprise they are Bengalis…they were liberals then become hinduvtawadis & still shows some minimal commitment to cognitive & moral grit for which whole legions of hinduvta intellectuals from Sampat to Sai have no qualm..
For example , Hindol Sengupta few days ago rebuked the utterly nihilist proposition of “reclaiming” 10000 temples from mosques by some utilitarian arguments “mass prosperity will not come without mass peace” or rubbished the theory of “western invention” of caste in india
Deep Haldar also belongs to same catagory of ” Liberal hinduvta ” , I suppose . As Prashant Kishor said , direction of Hinduvta is towards more radicalism ( Vajpey > Modi > Yogi )… In any way , moral claim of hinduvta intellectuals is that they are not worse than what their potential is …!!!
This ” Bhadrolok hinduvta ” is reiteration of such ” liberal hinduvta” which is de facto oxymoron … Hindu nationalism will always need occasional burst of Hindu communalism….
To think , there can be Liberal version of this (By Haldar or Sengupta) & Vile Ramesh Bunduri is part of ” fringe elements” is utter nonsense & deliberate self -fooling …
As I said , moral claim of hinduvta is that they are not worse than what their ultimate potential is???