Saturday, January 11, 2020

Arjun Appadurai on the current situation in India

Three Observations From India's Past to Contextualise the Present Struggle Seems to be a perceptive article but I am not sure whether he gets the whole picture and whether it is a guide to what is coming. To me an earlier article What Women from a Slum Near AMU Can Teach CAA-NRC Protesters  is more perceptive.
Check also Mukul Kesavan article posted earlier An evil hour. A quote “ According to him [Suhas
Alshikar] the problem with liberals is that they expected abstract ideas to win political victories whereas the truth was that in real life “[d]emocratic struggles for high principles do not happen in a vacuum.” The only way that liberals can prevail against the BJP’s clear-headed majoritarianism is if their “... principles [were] married  to lived realities and actual group anxieties.”“

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