The meaning of political science is often restricted to the state, government, and everyday politics. However, it goes beyond that. We as humans share various relationships. What do we do when conflicts arise in these relationships? How do we resolve them? The Socratic dialectical method or Habermas’ idea of deliberation provides a solution. It says conflicts are better resolved through dialogue rather than domination. Hence, it tells us how to talk in a dialectical manner. It is the process of reasoning together. For instance, when your father asks you to aim for a government job, but you want to become a content creator, you do not totally oppose each other. Instead, you engage rationally: Why is a government job important? Maybe because it provides security and financial stability. But being a content creator might give you creative freedom. So you decide to take a government job but also start your creator journey simultaneously — maybe by vlogging your day as a government employee...
Things won't change until we start talking about them. How much space do national newspapers give to the villages? Marginal. The front page of every national newspaper is filled with what's going on in Delhi. Between 2012-2016, front page space given to stories from India's 6,40,000 villages was 0.26%. Agriculture in the same period claimed 0.07% of the front-page news space of the top Hindi newspapers from the capital.
The book specifically deals with the tribal and scheduled caste people because they are extremely vulnerable beings in this country. The book makes various revelations and the most important thing about it is that it is not written just by sitting in a room. The writer has really worked hard and went to the ground.
Everyone must read this book. We all know that poverty exists in India. We all have sympathy for the poor also. But we take the matter casually.
Please read this book if you really want to understand their agony. I am sure you would definitely stop taking the matter so lightly.
This is such a masterpiece. A picture of the aggrieved would come to your mind automatically when you will read this book. Believe me, you would feel poverty and vulnerability. And when you really feel something you work for it or at least have empathy and not just sympathy.
Highly recommended book.
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