06-03-2009, 02:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-03-2009, 02:42 PM by Bharatvarsh.)
This term makes no sense at all in the Indian context because the terms as used in the West mean different things & can't just be stuck on some Indian group arbitrarily.
Even in the West "liberal" means different things, the term originally denoted libertarians/classical liberals (Bastiat, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard) before it was hijacked by commies/socialists like Bill Maher (though the idiot calls himself libertarian, he is nothing of the sort) who started calling themselves liberal.
This is just another meaningless term that has been propagated by the Indian media with no proper idea of what it's supposed to mean in the Indian context.
Even in the West "liberal" means different things, the term originally denoted libertarians/classical liberals (Bastiat, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard) before it was hijacked by commies/socialists like Bill Maher (though the idiot calls himself libertarian, he is nothing of the sort) who started calling themselves liberal.
This is just another meaningless term that has been propagated by the Indian media with no proper idea of what it's supposed to mean in the Indian context.