“Our political dialogue (has) become so corrosive…so coarse with rancour that those whom we disagree with are seen as malevolent,” said outgoing US president Barack Obama in his stirring farewell speech. Indeed what a contrast between Obama’s speech and the language we’ve heard recently both in America and India. With the departure of Obama The Decent, politics is looking increasingly like a bad boys club.
US president-elect Donald Trump snapped “You are fake news” to a CNN reporter. “Modi will return to Gujarat like the son of a rat,” screamed senior TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee. Modi has often referred to the UPA as ‘ma-bete ki sarkar’ and when he was Gujarat CM even called Sonia a ‘Jersey cow’. For Arvind Kejriwal Read More