We often meet or listen to people who speak with absolute certitude on any issues under the sky. They invariably invoke their party or religious ideology to impose upon others what they think is the correct way to understand the world. A radical commie was heard the other day on a TV channel during a debate on Chinese Communist Party's changed attitude to religion that religion was spiritual version of capitalism. I still fail to understand what that really means. But that chap was speaking in a voice that did not betray even an iota of doubt about what he was speaking about. There is no better example of unquestionable faith in what one thinks as absolutely right than the anti-Americanism of the Indian Left. The Left has developed it into a kind of religion. It is admirable that the Left sticks to what it believes is right even at the risk of facing serious political setbacks. But the voice of certitude in what it says leaves a sense of intellectual emptiness.
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