A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State

by Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan'

On almost every conceivable front, be it economic policy, foreign policy or internal security, India’s deracinated and comfortably cocooned intellectual elite are unable to offer new ideas. They endorse or criticise an idea not based on whether it might work, but where it came from. Rather than their political positions being informed by a philosophical worldview, their philosophical pronouncements derive from predetermined political positions. Some of the most eminent intellectuals write with pompous verbosity, as if showboating only to sound intelligent, and indulge in rhetorical games that would put the gobbledegook of a modern-day central banker or an erstwhile Soviet apparatchik to shame.