Maharashtra's politics has fallen to a level where even basic criminal law procedure is now contested to stand off between two groups, on the basis of weaponized caste identities. The "ours vs theirs" game now extends beyond victim & accused, to determine which officers should investigate a particular criminal case.
If you don't understand the gravity of the situation, have a look at some insta reels tagged with particular hashtags relevant to any crime with high TRP. This is a media consumed by majority of the Below30 population in the state & it's full of venomous caste skirmishes. This is a horrible state of affairs & the political class appears to be the main culprit in this. However, we should never allow the established public intellectuals to escape their fair share of blame in this!
Intellectuals in Maharashtra, saving for rare exceptions, have behaved like the cheerleaders of various political leaders for last couple of decades. Take any intellectual who gets coverage in the media. Whether they are on a payroll of such politicians or whether they behave like this due to their organically neutered minds is, however, a separate debate.
When certain heavyweights from MH politics were busy brewing the venom of weaponized caste identities, the public intellectuals of Maharashtra were frolicking around them for either for cheap monetary favours or a cheaper commodity named political validation!
The crumbling social fabric of MH you see today, is the direct outcome of "those with voice" behaving worse than the juvenile fan bases of Virat Kohli, KPop & Salman Khan! They actively cheered the "shrewd" politicians for injecting the nasty doses of caste weaponization in the veins of Maharashtra...
Never forget, never forgive!
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