Putting Ashoka to Work: Shaping Criticism, Morality and Ambition
This article is intended as a response to ‘AMAANAT not JAAGIR.’ There is no doubt that Ashoka is an “endeavour of profound optimism” and idealism. Without a sense of idealism, no planning for the future can take place, and there can be no poetry with which to ultimately govern for. The trouble arises when we question who gets to write this poetry, who it is recited to and who gets to privilege the prose. The inspiring poetry of creating a “top-100, non-profit, non-government,...
