Does Indias right wing have any ideas?

November 30, 2016 16:20

"In India, the left lost the battle. But this month, at what was described as "a conclave of ideas' organized by the Hindu right, I was reminded of a simple truth: Winning is not everything.The right wing won an electoral mandate in 2014, but it still has a tremendous sense of intellectual inadequacy. The conclave here in Goa was about building what is regularly described on Indian social media as a "right-wing ecosystem' to counter the left's alleged control of the news media and academia."

Aatish Taseer for the NYT. Do read

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