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I don't always agree with @ARanganathan72 's somewhat liberal views

But is there a smarter, more incisive public intellectual on Indian television today?

It's amazing how he makes his point amidst all the din on channels like Republic TV, while others struggle to get a line in!
@ARanganathan72 Of course being a bit of a traditionalist, I don't share his tendencies towards scientism, his social radicalism or his love for Ambedkar

But I must say there are hardly any voices who present the center-Right view more persuasively than he does in the English language
@ARanganathan72 And its not as though I always find him originally insightful

His great strength is his command over rhetoric! That's a rare skill.

How do you make a point most forcefully in 30 seconds. Much to learn here
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Śrīkānta Kṛṣṇamācārya
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Party politics is not the struggle of good vs evil

But a confrontation of one set of reasonable people against another set of reasonable people - both loyal to a different set of principles, that may be orthogonal to each other
This understanding of Party politics comes from Edmund Burke - the intellectual founder of Party government in the 1770s

The whole point of Party government is that reasonable people can disagree, and both can be right from the prism of their principle-set to which they're loyal
What unites Parties is a strong tribal loyalty to a set of principles

And this tribal loyalty is a counter-weight against individual discretion / brilliance which characterizes statesmanship

Parties curb statesmen, as statesmen can be morally unreliable
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On the stereotype of Indian "culture" in movies/literature

It is often shown how the father gives the bride away (kanyAdAn) and how the bride departs from her family full of tears

Reality: All around me I see kids being much closer to maternal relatives than paternal relatives!
If the bride's departure is indeed "real", then you should see kids growing up with little / no contact with mother's relatives

Yet we observe the opposite

Goes to show how the dominant cultural narrative is in conflict with ground realities
And this is not merely an observation pertinent to our times...

Even 2-3 generations ago, I see a stronger affinity among people to relatives on the maternal side than paternal side
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Śrīkānta Kṛṣṇamācārya
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This goes to show the gulf that exists b/w the way the intelligentsia perceives things, and the way people see it

But then people's preferences cannot dictate every policy choice

We need to strike that balance between respecting "vox populi" and deferring to technocratic wisdom
Otherwise you will have the govt pursuing several "popular policies" that are akin to "killing the fly on the baby's head with a sledgehammer"

Sure, the fly will be killed, but will the baby be unhurt?

Usually the masses are not well placed to assess the risk-return tradeoff
I don't mean to deride people's wisdom here.

Usually there is a certain logic and natural justice to what the majority feels

But where the majority fails is in assessing the "details"

The devil is in the details
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