I wrote some 25 years back and then posted in
2014 also during some occasion that the word ‘liberal’ meant ‘ privilege’.
Link given below .
It was not out of
imagination but based on etymology and references from great authors and authorities in History .
You can read all that
.But I never knew that SC of Indian will treat
self styled or media labeled ‘liberals’ as privileged
citizens. SC has set a very unfortunate and highly debatable precedent.
The word liberal from latin liberalis “ noble, gracious,
munificient” and according to one of
the best books on history ‘History for a united world’ that I have read long
back by an author called Edward Herbert Dance he mentions that
the word liberty and liberal were used for nobles and the aristocrats and it
indicated or referred more to ‘class privilege than anything else’ this author
incidentally writes “ India was far advanced in many areas when the west
was still groping about in dark ages”
To know about the
etymology of the word liberal and freedom read the link below
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