India has become extremely sensitive to criticism: Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Gandhi said that it is easy to work against the state than it is to work against an intolerant society

“We are now living in a country where the state is extremely sensitive to criticism and where intolerance seems to be a miasma that rolls down from the houses of power in Delhi to the gullies of all its cities,” former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi said on Sunday.

Speaking at an event, Gandhi emphasised that “an intolerant state can be opposed with great difficulty, but an intolerant society has to be opposed with even greater difficulty”.

“It is easy to work against the state than it is to work against an intolerant society. I say this in the knowledge of the fact that we are now living in a country where the state is extremely sensitive to criticism and where intolerance seems to a miasma that rolls down from the houses of power in Delhi to the gullies of all its cities.”