Pratap Bhanu Mehta' above named article in Indian Express of Sunday, the 28th Feb, is as usual deeply scholarly, impartial, and insightful
One comment, sited below, is incisively spectacular ;
"quote " Fourth, there is no doubt that we are living under a political dispensation that has a deep sense of victimhood. Its abiding thread is that it was victimised by the ideological complex of Congress's ancien regime.
This is a complicated story whose various strands need to be unpacked. But it, the essence of this kind of ideology of victimhood, is that it will see the world conspiratorially. Political success has not dented the sense of victimhood. It feels entitled to aggression because it sees itself as a victim. And self-constructed victims have a need to show they are being constantly attacked." Unquote.
We are in for a decades long churn in our culture and politics.
One comment, sited below, is incisively spectacular ;
"quote " Fourth, there is no doubt that we are living under a political dispensation that has a deep sense of victimhood. Its abiding thread is that it was victimised by the ideological complex of Congress's ancien regime.
This is a complicated story whose various strands need to be unpacked. But it, the essence of this kind of ideology of victimhood, is that it will see the world conspiratorially. Political success has not dented the sense of victimhood. It feels entitled to aggression because it sees itself as a victim. And self-constructed victims have a need to show they are being constantly attacked." Unquote.
We are in for a decades long churn in our culture and politics.
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