NEW DELHI: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday that India’s democracy benefits by criticism, but not by motivated fatalism by some “experts, ” who seem more guided by their politics rather than academic rigour.
“As we step into 2026, public debate in India should begin with a little New Year discipline, not by packaging insinuations, assumptions and shoot and scoot assertions as economic analysis, ” the minister observed in a post on X.
He further stated that in recent years, a genre of commentary has emerged that reduces the work of reform to caricature, treats every imperfect transition as proof of permanent failure.