Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 1, 2017 15:17:33 GMT
indiauncut.com/iublog/article/adityanaths-rise-marks-the-end-of-a-100-old-battle/
hmmm. i dont know what this all means. but it seems like well written intellectual mumbo jumbo.
In the life of our nation, the rise of Yogi Adityanath to the chief ministership of Uttar Pradesh might well be one such unexpected yet clarifying moment. I was stunned when it was announced; and yet, it makes so much sense that any counterfactual now seems absurd. It was, I have come to believe, a decisive and inevitable event in a conflict that has been simmering in India for at least a century.
The commentator Nitin Pai, in an essay in Pragati, a magazine I edit, wrote: “On 26th January 1950, the Enlightenment […] was injected into the veins of Indian society in the form of a written statute. We are still dealing with the shock of that moment.”
Narendra Modi’s rise to power was fascinating because he embodied the hopes of people on both sides of that spectrum. Some classical liberals dismayed by Nehruvian socialism backed him because they saw the damage Nehru’s ideas had done to India, and wanted their values imposed from above. And the whole Hindutva movement, obviously, fell in behind Modi because his ascent was the culmination of their century-long struggle.
These two strands are incompatible. And now, with the rise of Yogi Adityanath, there is no more ambiguity.
These two strands are incompatible. And now, with the rise of Yogi Adityanath, there is no more ambiguity.
hmmm. i dont know what this all means. but it seems like well written intellectual mumbo jumbo.
