“Intellectuals have connived with a culture of intolerance, accusation and controversy-stoking that creates hysteria as an extreme form of conformity,” writes Harish Khare in a Hindu op-ed on the Ashis Nandy controversy. Where my piece on media culpability took to task our abetment of a culture of censorship, Khare turns the finger at the very public intellectuals who are now wringing their hands over “the creeping culture of intolerance.” [Read 'Why the intellectual is on the run' here]