Sir — This refers to the article, “Information, real and designed” (December 22) by Kushan Mitra. The spirit of enquiry, as envisaged in the Constitution, finds few takers. Actually people, barring a few, prefer to believe in what they want to.
If an individual holds antipathy towards a particular community, any fake news or malicious article targeted against that community, will instantly be believed by him/her.
Or, if an evil personality happens to be the ‘hero’ of any group, then all papers or research material bearing proof of that person’s wrongdoing will never be accepted by that group. Actually, society might have progressed technologically, but it is yet to transcend norms of prejudice. Unless we wish to act neutral, the call for a spirit of enquiry is bound to fall flat.