RBI Governor feels that India should keep open views
Posted on: 05/Nov/2015 10:20:35 AM
Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has said that India needs to keep an open society. He said that this is its biggest advantage and that it should resist all attempts to close it down.
Speaking at an interview, Mr. Rajan said, It`s very important that both fringes, extreme left and extreme right, don`t say I`m going to shut you off if you don`t say what I want to hear. It has to be a genuine debate. You have to preserve that environment. Thankfully, the mainstream is well and truly supportive of this.
Mr. Rajan had recently spoken about his views on tolerance. Referring to that, he said, It wasn`t a speech about here and now. It was more about where is the dialogue going and how are we going to maximise the advantage we already have. For that we need to keep this an open society and we need to resist all attempts at closing it down... You cannot have a debate by screaming at one another. Let the ideas fight each other but let`s not prevent each other from saying what we think.
