Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Right Thinker



I am what you might call a center right wing sympathizer. However, I also have leftist secular views, so it won’t be exactly fair to paint myself as a right thinking supporter. Unfortunately in India, being a right wing sympathizer is like going against the norm, breaking tradition, or worst swimming with sharks. The notion that a person believing right minded principles is loud, aggressive and believed to support the principle of majoritarian authority has permeated into the intellectual class of our country. These views are defined by much of the political analysts and commentators in media who believe that they have the moral right of identifying the attributes of a right based political thinker in our country. Nauseating debates, which focus on the fake political ideology of secular vs communal, paint a bleak picture for rightist support in the media or otherwise the buzzing social media in India.