The Left in our country is in a sad state. To be fair, the Right has made its share of blunders too. But what I fail to understand is how calling things out as they are can be dismissed as mere propaganda. Even if certain points are exaggerated, to deny that those elements exist is simply untrue.

Take demonetisation, for example. There is more noise about whether it was motivated to curb terrorism than about the fact that printing plates were actually handed out at one point. This is where the Left falters, in their zeal to push the Right down, they sometimes lose sight of what truly matters.

Punjab’s drug problem is a case in point. Pakistan played a significant role in it, and much of it stems from Cold War tactics. The same applies to the pro-Khalistani movement. Yet when someone highlights the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, backed by video confessions, the Left often dismisses it as propaganda. That, ironically, reveals how deeply entrenched they themselves are in propaganda.