I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New…. Bertolt Brecht Dear readers, in a note to an earlier post, Electoral Inquisition, I mentioned the outstanding features of our ruling establishment: it uses democracy to destroy democracy it demands eternal power in the name of the people… Read More India’s self-incubated East India Company
NB: An incisive commentary by Professor Mehta. “First, though there is partisan bickering, there is still a kind of attempt to exceptionalise the behaviour of this ruling class… a bounded zone in which elite actors could suspend norms without contaminating the moral order of the centre. Second, there is a pathology of modern political life,… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Epstein Files aren’t an ‘island story’. They are about the nature of collective power
