The delusional business of waxing on the strength of institutions seems to be a professional pastime for political scientists. Take the latest from Ashutosh Varshney...
Is it gullibility or complicity of our pro-establishment intellectuals to pass off the violent core of political culture represented by Narendra Modi as an aberration?
Modi, Modi and Modi is all you see and all you hear – except when the channels decide to do a story on their favourite punching bag – the Aam Aadmi Party and Kejriwal.
If ideology-warriors had their way, they would rather have Narendra Modi as the next prime minister than have their ideological purity compromised by AAP.
Who were the people who suddenly materialized and took over the anti-rape protest in exactly the way that the police wanted them to, giving them the much needed alibi for a crackdown?
'It is a matter of deep distress that a threat from Darul Uloom Deoband has forced Prabha Parmar , a research scholar at the Chaudhary Charan Singh University to change the topic of her post-doctoral research'
If only there were no people, democracy would be fine…So urgent is the need to attack the inconvenient and disobedient people, that often analysis is upstaged by rhetoric.
