What is the difference between smart and wise?
Posted by: TB Team
A smart person will make a quick assessment of the situation and then think of the most popular response under the given circumstances. You criticise bad policies and encourage good policies. That’s how opposition should ideally be. But these days, all opposition parties (BJP or Congress or xyz) are just blindly opposing the policies of ruling party.
Shashi Tharoor was also disappointingly predictable like any other politician and was just being a contrarian for the sake of it.
A wise person will understand the same situation in all its gravity and depth and then provide a response that steers clear of populism but reinforces the truth, which may be harsh and often unpalatable.
Since I follow Indian affairs very closely, I will draw on an analogy using 2 intellectual rock stars of present day India - Shashi Tharoor and S. Jaishankar.
Let's review their actions and words on 2 of the most contentious issues in recent past, one of which exploded into a full blown national crisis for India while the other caused India to draw a lot of flak internationally.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
Abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir on 5 August, 2019
I leave it to you to decide who among these 2 is smart and who is the wise one.
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