Navigating Polarization: Finding Common Ground in a Divided World

- Dr. Hamid Dabholkar (Psychiatrist, Activist, Maharashtra Annis) Human behavior or the events happening around us can very rarely be divided into good or bad. Most of the time, our reality is made up of a mixture of different percentages of good and bad. In such a situation, we need the skill to distinguish between'what is bad from good? "and'what is good from bad?." In the present era, people are increasingly inclined to take different extreme positions, like two poles, on most things.'Polarization "is used as a major political weapon. It is a form of politics in which citizens can easily fight each other by taking a position of'extreme good" or'extreme bad. "Then the rulers can easily achieve their self-interest. If we do not want to be victims of this politics, then we should be able to find the good in the bad and the good in the bad. Sometimes, speaking against the bad is a different thing.