Highlights (1.14 hrs) The Telegraph National Debate 2016 Video | Tolerance is the new intolerance

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Yogi Adityanath must be jailed: Anupam Kher "I am shocked, ashamed and saddened by what you said being a judge you say that SC judgement was wrong" Kher said to Justice Ganguly Suhel Seth Marketing maven What we should really be intolerant about is intolerance itself. What we should be intolerant about is poverty, the subjugation of rights and opportunities. Why am I being part of an intolerance discourse when actually I am not intolerant? Why are we dividing India on lines of caste and creed and religion and exposing every little nuanced statement put out by stupid people as the final yardstick of this particular government… and I don’t mean this particular government… Kajol Actress I’ll leave the politics and speak about intolerance elsewhere… meaning myself! I have always been an intolerant girl. Twenty years ago, I was pictured as a demure and docile Indian girl being brought up in London by a caring and strict father who allowed me to go on my first Europe trip with friends. And there I met this boy who — quite famously — held my outstretched hand and pulled me into a train’s compartment. But once on the train, he and I were so totally on the wrong track. After all, how could any good Bharatiya nari ever tolerate someone as frisky and flirtatious as this boy called Raj,... Anupam Kher Actor Had any of you heard of the word ‘intolerance’ till seven or eight months ago? You hadn’t, because this is a term that’s been marketed. It’s a result of the drubbing that the Opposition got at the hands of the ruling party. The Prime Minister hasn’t taken a single day of leave in the last two years… let him work for five years and then decide... I am not advocating him, I am just speaking as a citizen of this country.... ___AGAINST___ Asok Ganguly Retired judge of Supreme Court In a school in Kerala the national anthem was sung and three schoolchildren respectfully stood up for the anthem but they did not sing. Initially the school authorities overlooked it, till it caught the notice of a patriotic gentleman who happened to be a member of the Assembly. He raised it and ultimately the students were expelled. They challenged it before the courts and the Supreme Court... in upholding the rights of the children made a very prophetic ... Randeep Surjewala Congress MLA Shall we forget compassion because another one is cruel? Shall we give up love and affection because another one spurns us? Shall we forget humility because another one is arrogant? Shall we give up tolerance because another one is intolerant? The answer is plain and simple. No.... Barkha Dutt Journalist I am going to ask all of you to step back from the politics, the theatrics, the histrionics and... let’s talk instead of the environment that we operate in today, and who has created that environment. Is it politicians, or is it all of us? Have we as Indians forgotten the art of conversation?... ___MODERATOR___ Mukul Kesavan moderator If I was arguing this for the proposition I would argue that in the last few months within the political context of India, a bunch of isolated and abhorrent incidents have been stitched into a sinister pattern and this, in a sense, is used to exclude legitimate political voices that arguably won the last general election.