Saai Sasidhar Patri
@sasidhar
Sasidhar is an IB educator teaching Integrated Humanities and Global Politics to high school students in Bengaluru. He runs a debating club and hosts lecture series at his school with industry experts to bridge the gap between book knowledge and real-world application. Apart from teaching, he develops middle school curriculum with a focus on Indianizing it using the latest literature on post-1947 India. In his spare time, he likes to play chess, read non-fiction, watch anime, and explore good food.
Sinking Public Discourse in the Indian Election 2024
Problem lies in simplifying complex issues into binary oppositions, marginalizing moderate voices, and employing charged language to stifle nuanced discussion.
Indignation, resentment, and reactionary politics
Democracies are like sand-castles, and they crumble down when they face a reactionary tide, emotions such as indignation and resentment take the reactionaries away from the present to a time-frame where the framework of morality itself changes, thereby providing them the scope to justify any radical action. It is important to engage with reactionary ideas for their loathe for the present, if went un-noticed and unengaged, might turn into a political storm.
Friends, enemies, and populist politicians
The 20th-century politics majorly revolved around one question: How do we organize modern states? The same question in the 21st century poses a dilemma with regards to the democracies. Towards the end of the last century, liberal democracy triumphed over Fascism and Communism. The rise of populist leaders today marks a dangerous advent towards which…
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