The most corrosive feature of India’s current political landscape is not merely the overweening power of the ruling dispensation, but the fundamental collapse of the capacity to distinguish truth from fiction among those who seek to oppose it.
In a climate where truth is already a precarious commodity, a new and more insidious pathology has taken hold: a habit of suspicion that sees every stirring of civic life not as a sign of democratic vitality, but as a meticulously choreographed puppet show.
The discussions over the past few weeks about the emergence of the satirical Cockroach Janta Party and the hunger strike by Ladakhi activist Sonam Wangchuk provide a clinical study in this self-inflicted paralysis.
Rather than engaging with the substance of these mobilisations, a significant section of liberal opinion-making has retreated into a hall of mirrors. By framing these movements as “staged” or as “false flag” operations engineered by the state, the Opposition’s intellectual vanguard is committing a double error. It is alienating potential allies and, more tragically, it is undermining the very possibility of political action.
The tragedy of contemporary Indian liberalism is its transition from a project of institutional defence to a project of conspiratorial narcissism. There is a seductive comfort in believing that everything...
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