India'S Soul Possessed : New India: Secular? Democratic?

<p>Intolerance hate and sustained low-level violence have marked the experiment to transform India. In this most controversial phase of the nations recent history we witness faux religiosity and a bogus battle between tradition and modernity. Bharat is pitched against India. Ancient past is invoked to obliterate the recent past. Hinduism and Bollywood are weaponised. Polity and society are debased. Weird or tragic scenes get enacted daily. The eventful years were heralded by scholar Ashis Nandys 2002 essay in the Seminar &ldquo;Obituary of a Culture&rdquo;. A new kind of politics which Nandy feared in the wake of the Gujarat communal violence acquired full force in 2014.</p>