Uday Prakash We are living in a strange time. If you speak or write in dissent of oscillating left politics (their writer’s front) you become a subject of bullying by the casteist bureaucrats and high police officials beside such Brahminical political formations, and if you happen to criticize bigger bourgeois right wing or centrist political parties, you become the softest target of reprimand by the governments. Now, is it time to keep mum, to shift to mute mode, stop writing and start chanting …’yes..yess ..ji ..ji…haan ..haaaan’ Things have reached up to a stage when symbols and metaphors, humour and satire would be playing more crucial roles than any resolute rhetoric, intellectuals have practiced in past.

Uday Prakash

We are living in a strange time. If you speak or write in dissent of oscillating left politics (their writer's front) you become a subject of bullying by the casteist bureaucrats and high police officials beside such Brahminical political formations, and if you happen to criticize bigger bourgeois right wing or centrist political parties, you become the softest target of reprimand by the governments.
Now, is it time to keep mum, to shift to mute mode, stop writing and start chanting …'yes..yess ..ji ..ji…haan ..haaaan'
Things have reached up to a stage when symbols and metaphors, humour and satire would be playing more crucial roles than any resolute rhetoric, intellectuals have practiced in past.