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Illiberal, intolerant and unsympathetic

The duties of the Goa police also include ensuring road safety. Every Goan, local as well as tourist, would be safer if this duty was performed. The drug trade should be legalized – but this is probably ‘too liberal’ an idea for the editor. He wants state action in checking the ‘resident status and visa validity’ of all foreigners here, a recipe for tyranny. A true liberal would favour a free, long-term ‘visa-on-arrival’ so that tourism, the largest industry in the world, is encouraged.

Sauvik Chakraverti bashes a ToI editorial and calls it “illiberal, intolerant and unsympathetic” especially after Gautam Adhikari, Editor-in-Chief for ToI claimed his newspaper was wedded to ‘classical liberalism’ [via].

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