These are interesting times. After the century of ideology, we are now in a century of identity. All political parties work within the boundaries of 바카라national바카라 even though their geographies are different. Five states are due for elections. We see a clash of emotions. In a post-truth world, emotions are fuelled by othering, a driving force in today바카라s politics.
Dominique Moïsi, a senior adviser at the French Institute for International Relations, in an essay titled How cultures of fear, humiliation and hope are reshaping the world, says that 바카라mapping of emotions will become as legitimate and compulsory an exercise as the mapping of geographical realities바카라. There is a greater need to understand 바카라the Other바카라 and to answer the question, who is this other.
In the past few years, we have witnessed fear. Visuals of barricades in Hathras, where a 19-year-old Dalit girl was fatally raped by upper caste men and media wasn바카라t allowed to enter; of nails laid out to stop protesting farmers from entering Delhi; the assertion of majoritarian identity through statues and temples clashed with images of political leaders reaching out to victims, hugging them, breaking bread with them.
We, as people, inhabit different territories바카라of fear, hope and disappointment바카라depending on who we are. Fear isn바카라t a good omen. Moisi says that in the territory of fear, 바카라every man for himself바카라 is the norm. Emotion of abandonment manifests itself in the case of minorities. Consider the 바카라love jihad바카라 cases in Uttar Pradesh or violence against women and Dalits.
In this climate of fear, where바카라s hope? Or, what is hope? We, as people, expect miracles (development, welfare, freedom) from our princes. This edition of Outlook looks at the politics of fear, division and emotions and identity in the current election season. Smaller regional parties are staking a claim in other geographic settings. Will hope return? Or will fear reign? Will federalism survive? Or will division bells ring again?
