O come on he took a break in middle of interview did that and again continued with interview... part is edited... 1 he took before intv and one after intv...
Shekhar Gupta is a perfect example of that kind of journalist who is seriously left oriented but has over the few years cunningly made his image (as a journalist) as some kind of a centrist figure. He is a cunning, opportunist,covertly left leaning journalist. Chameleon.
One more channel where AIM has appeared. 1. Sham sharma show 2. Pgurus 3. Jaipur dialogues 4. Sattology 5. Pondy lit fest 6. Festival of bharat 7. Citti media 8. Do politics And etc etc etc
That was a phenomenal interview, clearly enjoyed it. Abhijit is a great personality and it’s hard to pin him down on any one subject without getting the entire background (that’s why he is great).
Listening Abhijit is very entertaining and enlightening. He speaks honestly and eloquently with convincing arguments. In my view, every conscientious citizen should listen him and understand how left (earlier governments' largesse) controls narratives and misuse its powers. What I find it very interesting: 1. Right Government looks forward to the left validation. 2. Left is global and right is local. 3.Assertive nation looks forward to future and regressive nation looks back to a glorious past. I can list him endlessly...
Right and left are so contextual. Lefts call Giorgia Meloni a far-right, but rights call her right or right-center. Lefts call Modi right, and rights call Modi (recently) as left-center. Recently I laughed during Ramasimhan (formerly Ali Akbar) interview (Khilafat movement moviemaker) when he said Congress as right-wing party (because he's seen far-left govts in Kerala for long time. Since then, I thought, we only have right and wrong, but not right and left.
@@lookintoit4537 I agree but the reasoning of "anti-Muslim" is not correct here because whom you are referring to has been either silent 😶 or only have helped Muslims for years now. I'll spit it out even the name as well Mulana Modi has been the biggest supporter of Muslims especially with legislative procedures.
Even AIM doesn’t define right wing here, he is just stating contextual scenarios, he even calls mujahindus as extreme right wing in a way … so what’s a perfect right winger the, even if we don’t get caught in such narratives, nationalism as Hindu rastra thereby defining the possibilities at various segments as culture, economy, etc
Don't worry the basic values on which left are proud of will be gone as Islam will destroy the multiculturalism of left. Democracy is the breeding ground for Islamist. Left love affair with islam will end soon. Right now they r busying eating right wingers. On debate of left vs islam, left starts running. 😁😁🤣🤣. They think they will overpower islam but they don't know islam doesn't even consider themselves a part of human civilization. Their only legislation is to Allah.
Very rarely we see an unabashedly right wing politician/ political analyst who is this well read. It was a treat to listen to his perspective on a myriad of topics.
Generally, the left-wing is characterized by an emphasis on “ideas such as Liberty, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism”, while the right-wing is characterized by an emphasis on “notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism”. - Wikipedia Source Let’s compare today’s political landscape around the world and evaluate each of these adjectives assigned to the two groups. Left has developed a condescending attitudes towards everyone else because of their perceived higher moral ground. But the facts on the ground speak something else. Today the media is very tightly controlled to preach a certain viewpoint to the masses. The biggest weapon in the hands of propagandists is the media. Let’s analyze each of the definitions. I will leave it up to you to make a selection. Actually Left refers to those who oppose Government and the right means those who support the government. In a democracy these positions regularly change, therefore, the left & right also keep changing. There is no permanent left or right, just like in the real world. But Dharma & Adharma are permanent. We can be either Dharmic or Adharmic. Therefore, as followers of Vedas, we are technically neither left nor right. We are either Dharmic or Adharmic. Liberty on Social Media: Throughout the world, the Left often controls the social media and they have silenced many groups and individuals when someone disagrees with them. Left speaks of freedom of speech only when they are being supported by social media. When they are opposed by facts they often try to silence the opposition parties. Often times Islam as a religion claims to be on the left. And usually the words like Islamophobia is often used to silence the critics. They do not want themselves to be challenged. Liberty outside Social Media: Throughout the world the most corrupt politicians, academicians and individuals have claimed to be the Left. Whenever they are confronted by facts, they casually refer to every single source as right-wing. Practically, no liberty for common folks against the Left grained ideas of liberty. Many journalists have been murdered by the Left grained institutions for trying to bring facts around them. Khashoggi murder is a classical case in point. None of the Islamic leaders encourage any fact finding attempts against their structure, command and control. They are all above the law for the masses. The most suppressed communities today are in the left controlled territories. Equality: Every single leftist organization has been favorable to the elite. They preach equality but their actions don’t seem to fit what they preach. Some prominent left leaders in the US are millionaires, but they preach equality of income to Americans. Similarly, the left of Europe is usually the ones with huge financial backing while preaching equality to Europeans. Same in the case of India and many other prominent places on the planet. Fraternity: Cabals of leftist media fraternity has curtailed freedom of speech for generations. Cuba, Venezuela and now USA has plenty of such groups now. The leftist political parties have created fraternity of Unions to usurp the rights and freedom of their workers. Most of the leftist union workers feel suffocated. Islamic fraternity works similarly as the other communist left. They work only for their interest. Rights: The world history has shown till date that the left has always worked against the interest of masses. The worst human rights disasters have happened in Leftist controlled territories. Groups like Antifa, Naxals, Islamic Terrorists have been the biggest human rights violators. They often escape the laws because the other leftist support mechanisms such as media protect them. With left you have an ecosystem of Academicians, Politicians, Media and Judiciary to usurp the rights of masses. Progress: Which communist, socialist, Islamist country has ever progressed economically or socially? But media controlled by Left usually hides their incompetence and statistics. Reform: This buzzword is often used to hide their incompetence when they fail to meet their own stated goals of progress. The word reform is never used to reform their fraudulent practices, but is always used to control the masses. Media often uses these words to support their leftist ideological superiority when their leaders fail. Women and children are subjected to severe atrocities in leftist controlled territories and when they cry for help their voices suppressed by the left controlled ecosystem. Internationalism: This buzzword is extensively used to connect Left based controllers across the globe. Often times we hear from leftists, we have 57 countries or UN, speaks for our values. A common man is just perplexed as if they have no voice against a large group of leftists / communists. Authority: Without a structured organization, there cannot be any stability. Growth, progress, society needs structures. Most successful organizations who have uplifted nation’s for centuries work on a system of authority. For example, an army, civil government cannot deliver promises without a system of chains of authority. Without authority even parents cannot discipline their children. Leftist countries and ideologies use authority extensively to subjugate their masses. But a good authority helps nations grow. Japan, USA, India are excellent examples of structured authorities where they have delivered prosperity to their populations. Everyone wants to come to the USA because of an efficient judiciary, administration and employment. Hierarchy: Hierarchy exists in nature. Leftists / Communists / Islamists have hierarchies too. Often times they are used for subjugating masses. Without hierarchy no society can function. Order: Civilian Orderliness is the hallmark of a successful society. Everyone loves countries such as India, USA, Japan because there is a system of orderliness. You can’t find such order in Islamist, Communist and leftist societies for common people. Leftists promote elitist orderliness, Rightists promote mass orderliness. Duty: Without a sense of duty, no society can flourish. Duty is a hallmark of a responsible citizenry. When left demonizes duty, they usually are promoting anarchy and elitism. Tradition: Humans learn from traditions and culture. When left attacks tradition they are actually attacking history and culture. Which of humans is not proud of their tradition and culture? None. Every human loves where they come from. When left attacks traditions, they are actually telling masses, follow us and just forget your past. By ignoring tradition, a society becomes identity-less. Without identity, there will be chaos which the left wants desperately to establish a new Order which protects their elites. Reaction: Left doesn’t want anyone to question them. They will silence critics who offer intelligent solutions. They usually call all intelligent factual discussions as hate speech, call group of people as Phobic, create false narratives of victimhood and atrocities. We have all seen this extensively in the left controlled media, academics and politics across the globe. Any opposition to the Left is threatened by murders, riots, terrorism and social unrest. The leftist ecosystem supports any act including violence. Nationalism: The left hates this word because it refers to culture, traditions, truthfulness, hierarchy, facts, truth, history, duty and love. Nationalism hurts the agenda of the left. Irresponsible Globalism is the source of revenue for them. They like globalism because it suits them, and they hate nationalism because it hurts them. UN, Islamic Ummah are all such examples of leftist globalism pandering for their own selfish corrupt goals of controlling humanity. Internationalism is always good, but the local community is the most important in any society. Left is often opposed to family structures because it destroys their plan to control the last human on this planet. The word jugglers of the left have recently distinguished patriotism from nationalism to pander to their agendas. Friends, it’s time for us to understand the global dynamics of left or right. The leftist academicians have been promoted to create new definitions or change old ones now. So the world cannot learn much from their propaganda. It’s important to stay centered on the virtues of Truth and Justice and that is Dharma. Dharma means to be on the side of logic, reasoning, intellectualism and above all responsible Duty. Dharma is the new center. It’s important to reject all hate coming from left (Islamist, Communist, Socialists) and adopt a right path of Truth and Justice. We are neither right or left, we have to be dharmic.
Macalay educations is for marks/grades in the exam and never about critical thinking. In middle school world history in US there was one day class on Indian sub continent partition with inputs from students. This was 16 years back. My son’s insistence his total disagreement on points in the reference book, dragged to 3 day topic. All along the teacher never gave a time-out!
This is Smita Prakash's best Podcast. A very insightful Podcast, sighting the difference between left, right and centre. Must listen to this and you decide for yourself, your standing if there is any.
Thank you Smitha for the interview with Abhijit. After living in Palakkad during my younger days Palakkad I was told Pala means blackboard tree.However I enjoy Abhijit videos and thank him for entertaining us through U Tube .His knowledge of world affairs is beyond compare and we love him.
Didn't Abhijit say "Milkwood" or something of that sorts? Milkwood/blackboard is a tree that is used to make blackboards that is used in Schools- hence the name. Pala might be its local name. In Hindi the tree is called "Shaitan ka Jhaad". Tum dono Shaitan ho. And George has no locus standii, authority and agency to lecture about Indian languages and Indian culture. A George is a George after all and hence cancelled.
@@knightatdawndonbynight8432 Wow! Is this hatred or sheer ignorance? Does changing religion detach one from language and local culture? Not sure where you are from, but you sound not from the real world.
@@AB-yp7nc Because this beef eating is not out of any malice or to score a brownie point or to inflict salt to the mass memory of the peacefully coexisting majority law abiding people regarding the past of their sacred places of worship being deliberately desecrated with beef with a conspicuous threat of destroying their faith if they continued with their resistance against the invasion, rather purely out of passion for food like a genuine food connoisseur also because it is a facet of Indic (meaning originated within the confines of geographical India) religio-cultural and civilisational pluralism and tolerance as evident with beef eating/non-beef eating nonabrahamic Indians celebrating George's messiah's mas by cutting cakes and attending the church (even if not necessarily to pray) and praising its architectural aspects (just like Abhijit does) without any fear of being converted just for doing so, while this particular George is just being a monolithic George, lacking articulation, in their futile attempt of selective nitpicking on a triviality and dogwhistling the virtuesignalling left to part in with their amplifiers and footsoldiers and base their third rate argument on this as to how wrong Abhijit is on everything else on the earth., basically cancelling and proving themself in the process to be more allegiant to the George in them than to the Indian roots . This is how it feels like when the art of cancelling is turned on you like a bitter pill.
Smitaji, thanks for bringing Abhijeet on your show. First time I see him looking like a Michelin tyre. Very well mannered in his behaviour quite on the other side of spectrum when he is on Sham, Kushal show. Girgit kahinka.😍😂
You mean to say that you betrayed IAS, IIT etc…. Without even appearing? That way I betrayed all competitive positions. Thanks for giving me a terminology for my failures.
Great conversation!! But you haven’t brought out from him the Odisha Konark incident and his incarceration. And the influence of his mother on him and her sad exit to an illustrious Civil Services career consequent to an unfortunate political incident (acid attack). May be some subjects for Podcast part-2 !
Well here is my story me and my school time friend were two polar of political ideologies he was a a major supporter of CPIM and I was die hard TMC supporter . In that Era of west bengal CPIM was left and TMC is clearly Rw. Then after few years we get mature and one day suddenly we came and discussion and find out both of us supporting BJP not BJP but Modi apparently 🤣🤣🤣 This happend to a major section of Indian youth . Although we criticised BJP many times but find out only this party following major roles of freedom of expression.
At 19:06, when Smitha says 'get to the point', it pretty much summarizes this interview and Abhijeet Iyer Mitra's relevance as a political commentator or journalist.
One of the best podcast i have seen in the last couple of years. Its full of unbiased, transparent information and knowledge. No judgements on any side, yet a clear and point wise discussion about different ideologies. Abhijeet Iyer - you are epic :) !!!
Great conversation though just one feedback. For AIM he usually requires more time to articulate his ideas and I felt he could have been provided with more time to speak. I felt that he was interrupted a lot.
Smitha looked quite unsettled with Abhijeet's Left turns, Right turns, Up turns and Down turns. Ditto with the viewers, I guess. But an engaging and informative dialogue.
Plz give more time for guest to describe their points ...Time will not be an issue for listeners ...but we would like to get depper insight....I hope since its very new thing for the host...she will improve with the upcoming podcast..
Indian history proved that many kings and kingdom was plurish yet much sought for World Trade. Regional political parties are backbone and the true representative.
She writes for NYT or Washington Post? I'm not sure but did she get that chance due to attention given by right wingers? And Abhijit is also involved in making her popular, he calls her wife.
from the profound to the inane..AIM vacillates like an pendulum...from the nuanced to the outlandish he spouts theories and opinions, which at times are stupendous, yet totally bogus some times !!!
I was wondering why I had an affinity towards Abhijit, it went beyond the fact that he espouses right wing views - now I understood its a fellow Palakkad Iyer recognising another quintessential Palakkad Iyer.
Abhijit raised some very good points! Can't say I agree with him on every point but some of his observations are ideas are deeply incisive and refreshing.
The boycott of Bollywood started with the neglect of ' The Kashmir Files ' and responsible statements by them despite knowing it is the fact presented.
Thanks for inviting him. Sorry it’s too lengthy to watch this video at a stretch. Please make it into 2 or 3 parts. I admire his brutal honesty and frankness and he is politically incorrect!
Dear Abijith bhai, I just wish to correct you on two things 1. Name palghat. The original name is palakkad not palghat as the British named it. Pala tree is the home for ‘Yakshi’ (ghost). It is not pal (milk). You can see a lot and lot of pala tree and palm tree (also considered as house for yakshi- ghosts) in and around Palakkad- Pala forest. 2. You said BJP can win election without RSS. People like Sudhendra Kulkarni gave that advice to Atalji and Advaniji and you know the result. In a hypothetical situation if RSS withdraw support to BJP, the 1st 3 persons withdrawing support to BJP would be Shri. Narendra Modiji, Amit Shahji and Yogi Aditya Nathji. I don’t think anyone in BJP think they have an existence without RSS. Please correct yourself.
Why you always quote beef. Furst of all , we do not impose food on others. Anyone can eat anything. Only thing is that eating any non veg is bad. Animals have emotions. But we respect everyonw including abhijit iyer mitra. I do not belong to right wing 🤣 but i hate left wing . Also i hate extreme right. I like cultural diversity of India. I like temples buing built and progress happening in the world. We support globalization plus nationalisation.
Left or right are very subjective term, which varies state to state, country to country, and often confused with global left and right wing I.e. Indian Muslim narrative supposed to considered right narrative as per the text definition, and they got significant numbers as well which impact the outcome of electoral politics at some level, at least in state assembly elections, but still Muslim narrative considered as left in India.
Therefore, in India we don't have left or right ideologies with political parties, everything is merely a vote bank politics. Party claiming to lean with whatsoever paradigm will always try to grab new emerging vote bank if ever they arises by first-come advantage
Don't worry the basic values on which left are proud of will be gone as Islam will destroy the multiculturalism of left. Democracy is the breeding ground for Islamist. Left love affair with islam will end soon. Right now they r busying eating right wingers. On debate of left vs islam, left starts running. 😁😁🤣🤣. They think they will overpower islam but they don't know islam doesn't even consider themselves a part of human civilization. Their only legislation is to Allah.
Abhijit - A very articulate speaker with balanced nuances on each topic u questioned him with. The amazing references from history by Abhijit, was a an added bonus to the extended info to each question, he answered. What a delight to listen to him. What a knowledgeable well versed all rounder wiki he is. Smita ji - fabulous podcast once again 👍🌻🙏
The volume at its highest is also sometime inaudible.. Could you do something about the sound/volume.. speak louder or we should be able to increase to higher levels Smita.. Love your show
Damn, I thought I was getting tired of Abhijit and heard everything that he has to say. Yet he still blows me away with all these facts and takes of various issues, which make for great reading material. I felt the interviewer was behaving a bit cowardly, making statements like "you're going to get me fired, let's move on," and overusing the terms, "left-wing and right-wing." If you have a political or economic criticism, make one and be specific, rather than using general terms which have been worn of all meaning. Thank you. Abhijit, don't stop what you're doing. You're a national treasure. More work with Sham Sharma please (and spend some time with Sanjeev Sanyal, love that guy).
Think I'm being a bit harsh on the interviewer. You've brought on some great guests, and had some great discussions. Keep up the good work, but do work on those criticisms, thanks.
Smita Prakash, while saying BJP's economic policies are left-oriented, is consciously not putting the anti-people policies of Modi. What's the urgency of the Central Vista project, are all the airports made by Adani working properly? Is privatisation of Government sector left-oriented? Is cutting jobs in Army and bringing in the Agniveer scheme left-oriented? NO.
A great explanation ,loved the podcast Also concluded that as said in the podcast if a person wanted to become a central figure it elite be a leftist or talk the same This can be also seen that the journalists or media personal which talk leftist are seen as elite and more knowledgeable.
If UP go independent then it can easily declared as Hindu States nation, like wise many states would have declared as Hindu nation and have a seat in UNITED Nations.
We are getting killed by these kind of people. Hindu always got defeated by those who thought their intellect was greater than the collective for their own intellectual gratification.
@@AtticusFinch625 i also know his economics is shaky as smita pointed out at that point . But his argument that collective intellect is absurd , there is no such thing as a collective intellect . If anything collective intellect will be the lowest common denominator .
The insane level of bias with what side of political spectrum is being presented, is clear with the guest list. Laughable. Disappointing. Disheartening to come from ANI.
Palakkad is not equal to milk + tree. Palakkad= Paala (blackboard tree (Alstonia Scholaris)) + kadu(forest). So basically a forest with lots of Paala tree. Palakkad is a medium sized city and also a district in Kerala.
