Intellectual inquiry &politicking are two different forms of political manifestations with unique norms of engagement. Honesty defines the former &learning to play around honesty the latter.

Let these frontiers enjoy their own existence. Public intellectuals ≠ politicians!

Saddened to see clipped videos of @pbmehta . Eternal values of intellectual decency like demand for justice &truth will be articulated across ideological-political divides. This similarity doesn’t make individual intellectual identities congruent.

Anti BJP ≠ Anti National

Despite broad disagreements with Prof. Mehta on political lines, one needs to learn more to be able to intellectually engage with him.

When monochromatic academic narratives dominated public spaces, PBM’s words created alternative breathing grounds for non Left ideas.