'In the Garb of an Intellectual' is AI

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

intellectual'. About this battle of the worthies, we are not worthy of commenting. There is, however, one aspect that we cannot shy away from — the matter of IPR.

Or, as it is better known in less esoteric circles as, 'intellectual property rights': who owns the right to be called a true intellectual, and who doth not. The epithet of 'intellectual' once signified someone with intellect — plain and simple. For the non-intellectual, that meant someone who was a damn smart person.

Somewhere down the line, with overuse, misuse and abuse that included believing newspaper Oped columnists to be 'intellectuals', the value attached to the intellect and its custodians began to drop faster than the price of silver after the Spanish drowned the European market with the shiny stuff from Argentina. While 'intellectual' was yet to be become a dodgy, derisive term, the descriptor 'psuedo-intellectual' started to gain traction. And this is what, on Wednesday, one MP described another MP of being — a man in the garb of an intellectual.