How democratic is India when its paranoid bureaucratic establishment rejects research projects on Perceptions of Muslim Women, Left Politics in Mumbai, and How Migration Affects Hindus and Muslims in Hyderabad and Dubai?
The silence of non-governmental groups and particularly Indian academics has been deeply worrying. Not a single academic, as far as we are aware, has raised a voice in protest at the treatment of American colleagues not even those Indian academics who have enjoyed the hospitality of US academic institutions. Democracy requires a questioning citizenry brought up on a liberal education. A liberal education gives citizens the ability to interrogate the claims of authority. It encourages citizens to explore moral and political questions from a variety of perspectives. In the words of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty, not to say of humility. It is at the same time a training in boldness: It demands from us a complete break with the noise, the rush, the thoughtlessness, the cheapness of the Vanity Fair of the intellectuals as well as of their enemies. It d
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