Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
Scandals have been a part of part of human history for a very long time, perhaps even before the Hindu epic Mahabharata was penned down. And now in the age of social networking and Facebook, we are, in a way, inundated by scandals. But do these scandals focus our attention on problems in a way that is more effective than those of any speaker or reformer? I think otherwise.
The reason for my opinion is two-fold, a) the kind of scandals that we come across, and b) the people who report them to us. Let us take up the first point. The scandals that most frequently crop up on the social scene ar...
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