Amartya Sen describes Indian caste divisions as ‘anti-national’ at London School of Economics

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10 minutes ago, Android_Halwa said:

The argumentative Indian cannot be anymore argumentative than Amartya Sen. 

may be some of the facts are true...but he should have also noticed the fact that it’s been here for so long that it would take few more decades to get rid of it...it’s a social change and it’s always slow..

you can't get rid of it, by pleading to the better sense of people in power (uppercastes through their networks).

amartya sen is political, and political views will be strong, and imprecise and inflammatory by design.

he's more right than any right wing 'intellectual' economist at his finest.

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2 minutes ago, Android_Halwa said:

Doesn’t mean Amartya Sen should find an international platform to criticize on such facts. There are much better things to criticize apart from the social evil which has been prevalent for centuries. Same old rattling. 

He'll criticize them, when a govt that he supports his politics is in power. For the moment, he has to speak against what the current govt represents - which is uppercaste Hindian power.

The situation in India now is like TamilNadu in the 1950s, 60s, when dravidians were enthusing the young in TamilNadu. The only difference is that dravidianists didn't lynch people, and create riots.

They didn't even bother non-tamils in TN.

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1 minute ago, LuciferMorningStar said:

Usually Intellectuals like Amartya Sen are Communists. Not that I'm opposed to it. Just saying.

if intellectuals are 'usually' communist, then why is the world so right wing? Overwhelmingly most intellectuals are right wing. especially in the field Amartya Sen is in.. Economics.. the entire intellectual class is overwhelmingly right wing.

they come up with bullshit finance models to keep the status quo going, to save capitalism. There are very very few communist intellectuals. Even if Amartya sen was one.

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Just now, LuciferMorningStar said:

Don't think there's going to be a 2nd term. I think even they know that.

again politics cannot solve the rot in Indian society. 

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Just now, LuciferMorningStar said:

If you follow US politics/academia,  liberal Intelligentsia rule the country. If Liberal politicians are losing it's only because of appeasement politics. What they have to remember is a lot of eligible voters are Independents. 

In India there are more Independents than any country in the world. In US they atleast have registered Democrats,Republicans etc.,but in India majority of the voters are unaffiliated. It's not about Right or Left it's about who's going to offer them a better deal. Obviously voters in India did not vote for Beef Ban. Was never that big of an issue until after 2014.

dude, you have gotten completely offtrack.

No.. US is not liberal.. democrats are all not liberal. only pockets of US are liberal. They lost because of a combination of several issues, including of giving up distributionist policies in favour of right wing economic policies. US is perhaps the most right wing country in the entire west. 

The 'liberal' intelligentsia in US literally supported Iraq war, and will support Israeli occupation of gaza.. and a lot things that are illiberal. 

India, majority of voters are casteist. simple. Now that is the topic of the discussion here. India is casteist. Hence, its politicians have something to exploit.

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32 minutes ago, LuciferMorningStar said:

Usually Intellectuals like Amartya Sen are Communists. Not that I'm opposed to it. Just saying.

See very few people have political opinions of  their own. If majority intellectuals are communist.. then the world will move towards communism. Nothing can stop that.

There may be a lot of liberals in sociology, because the right wing position on that subject is very close to nazism, and cannot be intellectually defended without being ridiculed.