March 12, 2021 Lie low: Commentator after commentator has suggested that those against the Centre’s farm laws should not be allowed to agitate - PTI/ MANVENDER VASHIST Lie low: Commentator after commentator has suggested that those against the Centre’s farm laws should not be allowed to agitate - PTI/ MANVENDER VASHIST× It may not survive tyrants if left to intellectuals * Too often we assume that only the literate, the sophisticated and those with a broader vision are the guardian angels of democracy * Charles Dickens was known for his humanism; yet it was the same Dickens who, during the 1857 Uprising in India, ranted about how he would slaughter any “native”