The Way Back to our Roots - The Current Political Changes

 

Aparna Krishnan updated her status.

25 March 2017 at 11:14 ·

As the elite rue the rise of the Right, I wonder if they see that they are the root cause.

An english speaking elite, alienated from the people by their western education and privilege, ruled for decades. Looking down on the people - sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly. Negating and invalidating the people and their many gods and their customs and their knowleges amd their languages. And their jallikattu, and their kambala. In a million different ways. Through the schools and through the courts and through the media.

And as people finally rise to claim their own identities, it could swing to the other extreme, before it settles down. These are historical processes. Of a colonized country - whose elite stayed colonized well after independence was achieved.

Afsan Chowdhury I think you sum up every South Asian country's scenario with total accuracy.

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• Paromita Goswami

  Right wing has its own set of elite alienated English speaking representatives

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  Aparna Krishnan

  Please re-read the post. It is about the people seeking their identity, their gods, their ways. Coming into their own. They seek it in the Right, and if and when it fails them, they will craft it themselves.

  They are on the path of self identity. There will be many Jallikattus.

Jayshree Shukla

It only swings to extremes when politicians incite. On their own people live in peace. Which is why politicians who inflame communal passions should be flogged relentlessly.

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  Aparna Krishnan

  No, the angst is there. The sense of negation. The politicians cannot create a fire if the fuel was not ready and dry.

  

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  Aparna Krishnan

  We need a vast perspective today. And we need to go back to the people and learn some ground realities. In all humility, facing our own alienation.