Balaji Viswanathan
CEO at Invento (2016–present)
Why are you right-wing?
Some reasons why I’m right wing:
I’m happy with many aspects of my culture, religion, language and want to pass that on to the future generations. Of course, not everything is perfect, but perfection is a process not a state.
I’m quite scared about what would happen if the nation weakens. That means I want the leaders to be fairly assertive in protecting our borders and going against actions that will cause acrimony.
I believe that capitalism is the primary way in which the poor of India can be brought up. Almost every developed nation has an ecosystem for building businesses and all great developed nations have great corporations.
I believe in family traditions and saving family bonds as a worthy goal. The cultures that have intact families have better performing children.
I want strong laws and strong enforcement. I also believe in the use of death penalty for extreme cases as not all people can be reformed in the prison system.
I believe in international trade as the means to prosperity and security.
I believe in the relevance of structures like religion and nations.
Looking at how addiction of opium ruined China, I want to have regulations on drugs.
Of course, I do see merit in some of the left wing ideas - such as equal rights for all genders and the need for removing some aspects of religion. Overall, I’m more right than left.