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The Future of Friendships in the Age of Opinions - bymanujoseph.com

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I used to be friends with people who had a moral compass, but I lost many of them after they started reading my column. I still know a few, like a young journalist named Nidhi Suresh, even though she has been thinking of getting rid of some friends. It is the times. She was in Ayodhya last week. The fervour of the new temple has not consumed her, but she saw on social media some of her friends, with whom she may have shared broccoli and other liberal greens, posting their joy. It is a type of joy that inevitably has the quality of glee, and she has begun to wonder what it is that she loves about those friends, and whether she can still love them now that she knows there is something of the Indian mainstream in them. She wonders how to stay true to friends when you cannot argue with them about their deepest beliefs. Thus she enters a confusion of our times. People are losing friends they have loved for decades. They are losing them over opinions. There was a time, not long ago, when ver

The Future of Friendships in the Age of Opinions - bymanujoseph.com Skip to content Home About Subscribe X The Future of Friendships in the Age of Opinions Manu Joseph February 2, 2024 I used to be friends with people who had a moral compass, but I lost many of them after they started reading my column. I still know a few, like a young journalist named Nidhi Suresh, even though she has been thinking of getting rid of some friends. It is the times. She was in Ayodhya last week. The fervour of the new temple has not consumed her, but she saw on social media some of her friends, with whom she may

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