Rethinking Intellectual Colonization: Hindutva’s Misdirection and the Battle for India’s Mind

In the art of magic, misdirection is a masterful tool. A magician diverts the audience’s attention, creating an illusion that obscures reality. The hand flourishes, the cape swirls, and while the audience is captivated by the spectacle, the real trick unfolds elsewhere. In contemporary India, the ideology of Hindutva employs a similar sleight of hand, using misdirection to mislead...

GREETINGS

There is an aesthetic ugliness.

But there is also an uglification that is constructed to please or delight a certain privileged group.

- Fr Victor Ferrao