We canonize our leaders, says Ansari

New Delhi : Indians develop “reverential attitudes” towards personalities because we canonize them, Vice President Hamid Ansari said Friday.

Ansari made the remark at an event where he released a book, “Ambedkar Awakening: India’s Social Conscience”, authored by Narendra Jadhav, a member of the Planning Commission.

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“(This) is an intellectual biography in the best sense of the word,” the vice president said.

“We in India canonize personalities and because we do that, we develop reverential attitudes.”