The protest by some of India's most well known academics at the recent violence in Nandigram is laudable but it only addresses the symptoms of a wider malaise. It is in the inability of the left-leaning intellectuals to ask the underlying questions that matter that has left them locked in an uncomfortable stand-off with the political left.
The Intellectual-Left Stand-off
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