Before Covid Pandemics Of Religiosity And Strident Nationalism Affected Society: Hamid Ansari
Overt and covert ideologies are seeking to segment India on imagined criteria of “us and them”, former vice president Hamid Ansari said on Friday, asserting that even before Covid-19, society became a victim of two other pandemics – religiosity and strident nationalism.
Ansari said that as against religiosity and strident nationalism, patriotism is a more positive concept as it is defensive both militarily and culturally.
Speaking at the virtual launch of senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s book ‘The Battle of Belonging’, Ansari said that in a short space of four years, India has made a long journey from its founding vision of civic nationalism to a new political imagery of cultural nationalism that appears to be firmly embedded in the public realm.
