Panegyrics, encomiums, and hymns of government’s stellar achievements ceaselessly flash across media: print, social, radio, or television. Journalists, academicians, social and political commentators, higher judiciary, legislators, executives, university vice-chancellors, ministers, chief ministers, all race breathlessly to outdo the other. In this deluge of eulogia, she wants to know that which government is not doing right.  After the takeover of current-affairs-channels by corporate houses, no channel broadcasts news. She eschews TV. She reads Indian Express and Hindu. She pours over the long reportage that go by the name of investigative journalism in Caravan.  Patriots (aka Bhakts, Ultra-nationalists, Desh-premees) do not read any daily. Social media is their perennial fount of knowledge. It pronounces open-and-shut judgmental verdicts. They have unswerving faith in this received wisdom. This saves them futile exercise of their reason.  Knowledge corrupts. Curiosity ...