Swapan Dasgupta, Political Commentator and MP

It is often said, not really off the mark, that the Age of Modi has not spawned a ‘substantial’ intellectual establishment of the Right. Even as the left-liberal citadel of the mind crumbles after decades of entitlement, the noise-makers from the other side of the argument are usually unrefined nationalists and other sundry cultural exclusivists.

Swapan Dasgupta is a redeeming exception. He is our most engaging conservative sophisticate who cannot resist the use of English impishness. As a political columnist, TV pundit, public speaker and now MP, Dasgupta, a historian by training, adds cerebral brio to the Right cause.

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