No room for nuance in this fragile republic

January 28, 2013 08:56

A complaint under the Prevention of Atrocities Act was on Sunday filed by a citizen against author Ashis Nandy for his controversial comments that people from OBC, SC and ST communities were the "most corrupt", which he made at the Jaipur Literary Festival.

But in the rush to condemn Nandy and demand that he be jailed, no one bothered to understand what exactly he had said about corruption and caste

Clamping down on nuanced utterances and elliptical statements of the kind Nandy made will only make us a poorer democracy and Republic.

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