The JNU marsh breeds uniform offsping in an assembly line fashion. Although unrelated, this “op-ed” is a close cousin of Sagarika Ghose. Template again. The directive from the top seems to be: bat for Mayawati, and the Dalits but yell at her when she creates trouble for the Congress party .

The op-ed is not even worth a read. In passing, what baffles me is the credentials of these worthies. They have some impressive-sounding degrees, are professors, lecture, write, and other good things. In the process, they shed their commonsense.

Mayawati seemed to go back to political square one as she took on Tikait recently — from one that targets the ‘bahujan’ to one that speaks to the ‘sarvajan’.

Those loyal to the BSP believe that this shift was necessary to tame Brahminism.

The day you put those ideology-filled books and enter the world to translate words into action, the world appears far different from what was described in the books. Admittedly, the BIMARU states still suffer pathetic “social imbalance” (Note to self: can’t believe I used those words). However, “taming” Brahminism is way off the target. The logical question is: what influence does “Brahminism” hold in today’s politics? If anything, the dominance of Brahmins–”upper castes” if you will–is rapidly diminishing. In passing, it is not incorrect to say Mayawati, not the BSP is the only Dalit force in India. Like other political stars, she’s going the personality-cult politics way. Name one successor to Mayawati. Take her away–and I don’t mean it in Karan Thapar’s “sudden removal” way–and the BSP will disintegrate in no time.

If you’re from JNU, you need to pitch in those mandatory two lines about the Communal forces.

In 1989, the resurgence of the BJP was marked by an aggressive sectoral mobilisation of upper caste Hindus against the Muslims around the demand of a Ram temple at Ayodhya.

According to this logic, all Hindus who want the Ram temple to be built are upper caste. And the rest of the article doesn’t matter.