From the Archives (May 10, 1921): The other side
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The panic among a certain section of the people at Allahabad which Pandit Motilal Nehru has found it necessary to allay by a reassuring letter to the Press shows at once the extent of the hold that the Non-Co-operation movement the misleading Leader not withstanding, has over the public, and the erroneous ideas about Non-Co-operation which have been sedulously propagated by hostile critics. It is the aim of this vile propaganda to discredit the movement by exaggerating the sporadic outbreaks which are due less to Non-Co-operation propaganda perhaps than to the accumulation of unaddressed wrongs dating for years. Even if the Malegaon outbreak, for instance, be due to Non-Co-operation, it is only an exception which proves the rule that the movement is one which essentially makes for peace and non-violence. That it inculcates ideas of ordered and disc
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Why Is Liberalism a Bad Word for the Right?
If liberalism has become a bad word for the Religious Right, there must be some virtues in the concept and practices of the ideology.
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Society14/Jan/2021
I have been attracted to critical theory all my life, and never dreamt that I would be compelled to defend liberalism, as I intend to do in this piece. Oddly, a philosophy that has been dismissed by the radical Left as tame and status-quoist, has become a term of abuse in the hands of the religious Right.
âLutyens Delhiâ, the âKhan Market gangâ, and âUrban Naxalsâ are contemptuously dismissed as ‘libtards’. The mind boggles. What on earth is the meaning of libtard? The word is clumsy at best and incoherent at worst. The wider question is – why is the Right so scared of liberalism?Â