A Renovation Of The Reckoning

I think a lot has gone wrong in our dissent.

And a lot has gone wrong with educationali institutionsbecoming echo chambers.

Hate has been spread from all sides. Slandering,

shaming etc has been the cornerstones of so

called dissent. With absolutely zero exposure of

the field and ground realities.

Maybe instead of fighting hate with hate, we need tos tart with the constitutional rights that we have been vested with. We need to work upon our policy analysis and critique. No matter how much wedislike each other, we have to have dialogues. Theso called liberal mindsets work on a lot of assumptions.

What I have really seen around me (in my very limited perspective and scope) ideologies aren't the cornerstone of victories- it's the material reality resource management and correct marketing strategy. If we need to counter something we need to find something that impactful

All those people on my feed telling people who votedfor BJP to fuck off, you possibly triggered this in them when you mocked them for their right wing leanings and slandering them for being uneducated. You failed to talk. You failed to understand them and initiate meaningful dialogue. Even now, people might target me for beinga soft centrist and what not jargon that is such a trademark of "woke liberals" (completely ruined the term to be honest). But you cannot fight hate and bigotry with hate and bigotry.

The so called academia and liberals ( am sorry for using this word like this but I don't know what elseto call them) are so busy defending ands slanderingthat they refuse to understand that big wordsdon't make sense to grassroots.

Problematizing everything is fine at the level of theory , it gives new perspectives but really, if it's notbeing translated to practical policy, maybe we should focus more on ground realities, however ugly they may be.

I gain new insights everytime I go to the field and meet people. They don't care about ideology. They care for the money. Also, this generalization and homogenisation that the academia and liberals oppose, why do they end up doing the same to people who don't agree with them? Why dothey work so much on initial assumption that a person will inherently be a bigot just because they disagree and maybe lean towards certain wings ?That's what makes academic spaces so toxic and drive people to hate it. This applies to allother spaces, like social media as well.

We as citizens have failed to do our duties too. We have failed to do so many things that thec constitution expects us to do. Let's introspect,h hateless, talk more and focus more on things that have immediate impacts on people's lives. I know I will get hate for this, but I will still try and chooseto remain calm. Let's try and build a better dissent. Let's try and see what and why things are happening as they are.

And for sake of logic stop defending everything, everyone. You cannot beat experiences and you cannot be right based on just facts/data (which we anyway don't have). We can't fight hate with hate. That will lead us nowhere and we will find the cycle repeat itself because BJP won't stop

It's time we learn our lessons and renew our

strategies.

PS:. I made this post without mentioning certain

keywords like Savarna, left, fascist, identity,

nation, hindutva and many more. I am not

oblivious to them but I really want to get a point

across every wing and ideology and party. It's a

collective failure.