If my earlier post on dyed-in-the-wool communist, Raja Mohan hasn’t convinced you, here’s more proof. The article is titled Winners still in denial and the blurb reads Don’t obsess over the nuke deal’s text. Read it for the big idea on India but you shake your head in frustration after reading it: huh? what’s he trying to say? The piece also contains what I’ll call plain evil but more of that as you read on.

Raja Mohan wants us to buy his–probably Congress-sponsored–idea, that everything is milk and honey over the Indo-US nuclear deal. At a time when the clueless Opposition is making feeble attempts to make itself heard and despite several cautions against India giving its blanket signature.

Clarity was never Raja Mohan’s forte, so he takes us on a world tour to “prove” how India’s respect has shot up several million notches higher. And then he botches the entire thing in a way that is too perverse; one fails to find adequate words to describe it.

From highlighting India’s rising star, his “article” suddenly takes a vulgar, casteist turn, the evil that I mentioned about earlier.

The real problem lies in the emergence of two world views in India — speaking metaphorically — one of the “bania” and the other of the “brahmin”. The banias are revelling in India’s new prospects on the global stage; the brahmins are frightened at the likelihood of India emerging as a great power.

One can condone this kind of writing in a hate site like Dalitstan but as the Acorn says, How a national newspaper allowed such an article to appear in print is unfathomable. But then, if it’s unfathomable, it’s certainly understandable: the Editor of the Indian Express is one of the biggest dyed-in-the-wool Communist, an establishment stooge masquerading as the upholder of journalism of courage.

It can’t get more hypocritical than this: those who protest loudest against casteism–the Indian Express tops this list–bring in caste in an “analysis” of foreign policy. What’s next? People will begin to use this article to support the OBC Reservation monstrosity.

Cross-posted in Desicritics