doublethink

--> In 'New' India Conversation is the Key (Also published on thewire.in ) A very close and old friend of mine nudged me on the facebook, let’s celebrate! We are extremely thick as friends and poles apart as political beings. Friendship, nonetheless, thrives in both spaces of emotions and mutual care as well as in shrills of dissent and disagreements. I told him I will watch him from a distance while he celebrates. This is a personal anecdote. It can be easily rubbished as an unnecessary piece of information. The aggregate of such anecdotes does not collectively transform into structures of macro-level ‘dialogues’ or actionable points of political engagements. But there is at least one value in sharing this anecdote. At least, the way I see it. This value is in recognising how politics is now dissolved in the everyday blood of ‘new India’. Two things have happened simultaneously. A ‘new India’ has come to the fore, of course, at the rubbles of t...