Monday, 12 February 2018

#191

I have a lot of time for Prof. Ashish Nandy.  Not only is he a sociologist, psychologist and a political theorist of considerable repute, he is also arguably the most preeminent public intellectual in the country today.  Somewhat of a rare commodity these days in 'New India' of Mr. Modi.  Professor Nandy made a very interesting observation some 25 years ago at the height of the Babri Masjid crisis.  He said that in the coming years, both Hinduism and Hindutva are going to be locked in a deadly combat.  This will be not a confrontation, but an apocalyptic fight to the death, and if the latter defeats the former, then Nepal will be the biggest Hindu nation in the world.  Because then there will be no India, Hindu or otherwise.  How prophetic his views seem now.
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