Jaitley's attack on writers was both ill-informed and ill-judged: Ramachandra Guha

October 19, 2015 09:05

Ramachandra Guha on why he sees Arun Jaitley's remarks as an insult to intelligence of writers:

When I saw on Twitter that the finance minister had written a blog attacking writers, I was puzzled. When the goods and services tax hangs unresolved, when drought stalks the land, when major questions of monetary policy are being debated, why would the man in charge of the Indian economy expend time and energy on us mere writers?

Then I read Arun Jaitleys blog itself, and my puzzlement increased. From what I have seen or heard of him (we have never met), Jaitley seems a reasonable, even-tempered man. But this attack was ill-tempered, and at times even ad hominem...

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