Some have appeared in the list of the world’s leading public intellectuals compiled recently by Foreign Policy. I must confess these lists are as seductive as those of cricketers and film stars and as controversial and biased.
Ideas are mobile, fluid and harsh. Some of these names may lose their lustre in a decade. The power of ideas is unforgiving and the fate of ideas is often ironic. But while it lasts, let us honour them. One celebrates and salutes them all for keeping vision alive, courage alive and ideas alive.
The writer is a social scientist
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