: Opinion: Is it intolerant to turn down an invitation to tea with people who support intolerance? #IndiaNEWS Last week, a clutch of writers were reported to have withdrawn from the Jaipur Literature

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Opinion: Is it intolerant to turn down an invitation to tea with people who support intolerance? #IndiaNEWS
Last week, a clutch of writers were reported to have withdrawn from the Jaipur Literature Festival in New York City to protest the invitation to a Bharatiya Janata Party leader to deliver the keynote address at the event. As was to be expected, the BJP leader said this was an example of how intolerant liberals hated opinions that are different from their own.But it was not just Hindutva supporters who criticised the protest. Mahmoud Mamdani, the Ugandan political philosopher and writer of Indian origin, who also participated in the festival, also disagreed with the boycott call.“I have never before considered withdrawing from an event because I objected, however strongly, to the views of a participant – so long as the event itself was not being hijacked by this person or their organisation, thus closing it to opposing or divergent views,� he told the Middle East Eye.However, researcher Suchitra Vijayan reminded Mamdani that he did not seem to hold the same view about Israel. Last year, Mamdani called for sanctions against Israel since in his understanding that nation is “an apartheid state�.The policy of apartheid, which segregates and disenfranchises entire communities, contravenes all principles of civilised living. How can you even talk with someone who does not consider you human enough to...Read more

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