Elitism\, populism\, meritocracy…

Elitism, populism, meritocracy…

Decoding the angst-ridden discourse of the day

Ajit Balakrishnan 

Ajit Balakrishnan

Not a day passes without encountering some serious thinker venting his/her angst on this subject.

It could be an editorial or a column in a newspaper, magazine or website, or an interpersonal exchange at work or a comment by a friend one is having a drink with. Let’s quickly run over the vocabulary of this angst-ridden discourse. “Khan Market Gang” (believed to have been created to describe a group of young Members of Parliament from entitled backgrounds who ate at upscale restaurants at Delhi’s Khan Market during their lunch break at Parliament but now applied ...

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First Published: Wed, June 26 2019. 22:12 IST