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February 8, 2025 micro

Wanted: Small-tent progressive spaces

I don’t follow the day-to-day of politics in India too closely — lots of motion/noise and not enough movement/signal.

What is clear 1, though, is that there need to be efforts to organise “small-tent” progressive spaces/movements that bring in people across identities. This means they should be based primarily on values and not solely be focused on identities 2. This is not about elections, we need to think in 10 / 20 / 30 / 50 year horizons 3.

  1. and has been for a while↩︎

  2. These are not mutually exclusive and can/should co-exist↩︎

  3. I’ll show up with a walking stick/walker if I have to↩︎

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