This outspoken outpouring of mine must be

[phonenumber]

BIG Art will be on display at Rainforest until mid-November. Visit 9781 Willow Street, Wednesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. More information at 250-246-4861 or at [email protected] THE “GRASSROOTS”: THE TALES OF AN INTELLECTUAL
New entrepreneurial energies were unleashed which catapulted India into the upper echelons of the global economy.


Recently I had a conversation with an old school friend of mine and marveled at this idea of ​​how the notion of “basic” was glamorized by a previous generation of intellectuals and educated classes. We both agreed that this idealization of the “grassroots” of the egalitarian, dreamy-eyed intelligentsia of pre-1990s India basically offered piety and condescension to lesser sections. privileged members of our society. I remember the joke about the French Revolution that “the rich got poor and the phone number library poor never got rich,” which succinctly captures this obsession with the poor and underprivileged without any concrete offer of solutions.


seen in light of the 30th anniversary of liberalization and economic reform, and in which we belong to a generation which grew up under the yoke of the old socialist license Raj and where Marxist doctrines have taken hold. dominated. In my case, I spent my childhood years in West Bengal, which happened to the citadel of this kind of egalitarian left-wing utopian thinking. Despite having known different cities in India, I can safely say that the intellectual flavor in most of mainland India was this brand of egalitarian, anti-establishment and militant thought. More importantly, wealth creation and entrepreneurship were frowned upon and viewed with contempt.