December 12, 2007

Being Liberal in C.I.

The good folks over at Blogbharti asked me to ruminate on Being Liberal in Contemporary India.

So I did.

8 comments:

Bombay Addict said...

Thanks Dilip!

Alex said...

You did good!

Anonymous said...

Dilip

I am interested in knowing your ideas on elitism.

regards,
Baby V

Baby Vaijayanti and Puppy Manohar said...

Dilip

I am interested in knowing your ideas on elitism.

regards,
Baby V

Dilip D'Souza said...

BAddict, I owe it to you, actually!

Alex, thanks.

BV and PM, if you ask twice, I can hardly refuse. So: Not the Queen of Gulbarba.

Anonymous said...

1. The middle para in there, the liberal definition of conservative, read rather close in tone to how a conservative would define a liberal. Maybe one needs to hold to those definitions to pass as a liberal.

Reminds me of your thesaurus quote: stick_in_the_mud, reactionary, closed-minded etc.

... in a post where you accused conservatives of attacking liberals or calling them names :-)

2. Elitism: Slightly surprising. I kind of agree with Anand from the earlier comment thread:

"Being elite due to intelligence or entrepreneurship is different from being elite because of one's caste or inherited wealth."

regards,
Jai

Bombay Addict said...

And we owe it to you!

Dilip D'Souza said...

BAddict, and I am grateful to you!

(Your turn).

(Say the word, and we can go on like this forever).