The Conservatives and the Liberals of India

An irony that strikes me here is that many supporters of this government sort of identify as conservatives and they call themselves conservative but it kind of strikes me that what this particular government is doing is not conservative at all. They are going against the grain of Indian society which by its nature is assimilative and tolerant. And you know one can obviously point out many ill liberal things about our society especially the misogyny and the way we may not treat it for example. But equally in one way we are a liberal society in the sense that we assimilate influences from all over so well including the fact that Mr Shah's name is of Persian origin.