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When National Identity Meets Narrative Gatekeeping
A liberalism that polices cultural expression risks becoming what it once claimed to resist. Two recent pieces of journalism - the first by eminent columnist Shobhaa De in ‘The Print’ (March 24), titled “Why Arjun Rampal saying ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ should worry Bollywood audiences,” and the second by Rahul Bedi in ‘The Wire’ (March 26), titled “Deeply Problematic: Military Veterans React to Senior Army Officer’s Lecture on Bhagavad Gita” - illustrate a section of our intellec

Shivaprasad Khened
8 hours ago3 min read
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