The curious case of UR Ananthamurthy & his anti-Modi ilk

The intelligentsia and the

are regarded to be the conscience-keepers of a society. But in India, there is a sad similarity between these two entities and that is: reputed representatives from both exhibit a high standard of intellectual dishonesty.

It raises a worry when intellectuals both in India and abroad go on targetting Narendra Modi as anti-human because of the 2002 riots. It also makes one apprehensive when a section of the media sets aside its responsibility to deliver objective news and begins to add its own judgment to the story angles.

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