NI co-editor Dinyar Godrej, alterted us to the situation regarding political psychologist and NI contributor,
Professor Ashis Nandy. Nandy is at the centre of a firestorm over an
article he wrote after last year's elections in the Indian state of
Gujarat which resulted in the re-election of one of India's most
incendiary politicians – Narendra Modi of the Hindu
nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. In his article published in the Times of India,
Nandy bemoans the current state of affairs in this deeply divided
state, and lays the blame firmly at the feet of the urban middle class
that have been fanning the flames of communalism, religious nationalism
and fundamentalism.