‘India’s New Right’ Unveiling Dissects Ideological Labelling

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Sanjeev Sanyal says All are Right-wing In Financial Markets

By Raisina Correspondent

New Delhi, November 14: The unveiling of Abhijit Majumder’s ‘India’s New Right’ saw Right-wing thinkers asserting comforts of a large tent as they take stage on social media platforms and television to express their opinions freely. They are combating labels thrown at them and find shelter in own eco-system to further “bust narratives of the Left”.

“In the financial markets, everyone is a right-winger,” said Sanjeev Sanyal, member of the PM-Economic Advisory Council (PM-EAC). Sanyal told Majumder and journalist Swati Goel Sharma that he never faced consequences of being a freely speaking Right-wing, for “I was not dependent on anyone for my livelihoods”.

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His remark came after Majumder and Sharma gave accounts of facing adverse consequences of being outspoken in their thoughts at their workplaces. Both are media persons.

“As I worked on stories that busted the Left-propelled narratives, I found myself given labels at my workplace. Later, I joined Swarajya and found a free and comfortable eco-system,” Sharma detailed her days in a leading daily published from New Delhi.

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Majumder in his book has documented the life stories of the current-day Right-wing public faces such as Anand Ranganathan, Kushal Mehra, Sanyal, Sharma, and several others. “I particularly enjoyed reporting from the Northeast for the book,” Majumder said while introducing the book to the audience at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts in New Delhi on Wednesday.

They later sat for a panel discussion with Advaita Kala who probed the Right-wing thinkers of their hostile experiences with the Left eco-system. Ranganathan is a popular television debater while also being a microbiology scientist at the Jawaharlal University in New Delhi.

“The Left is an ecosystem of the people who are rank failures and hopeless,” said Ranganathan. The panellists counted Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and others as Right-wing thinkers of the past.

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Sanyal dissected the Left as an ideology of various shades, including Nehruvian, Marxists, Socialists, etc. But, he said, the financial markets are full of Right-wing people as they all want to make profits. “I grew up in Kolkata of Jyoti Basu days and even when I was a teenager I held my views. They have remained the same. So, the people have familiarity with what views I hold, and so, I didn’t face much of problems,” added Sanyal.

He also claimed that there exists a “tiny group” that makes the loudest noise from the Left eco-system. “This was true in the Jyoti Basu days. This was also true during the days tukde-tukde slogans were raised in the JNU,” added Sanyal.

The economist said that “I addressed a packed-house audience in JNU when the tukde-tukde slogans were being raised on the campus, and I faced no resistance”. BluOne Ink has published ‘India’s New Right’.

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