An Incessant Struggle for Being a Homogenized, Pasteurized, Essentialist and Standardized Akhanḍa Hindu Rāṣṭra: Bharatiya Janata Party
An Incessant Struggle for Being a Homogenized, Pasteurized, Essentialist and Standardized Akhanḍa Hindu Rāṣṭra: Bharatiya Janata Party An Incessant Struggle for Being a Homogenized, Pasteurized, Essentialist and Standardized Akhanḍa Hindu Rāṣṭra: Bharatiya Janata Party Posted on 22/01/2024 (GMT 08:00 hrs) DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14648.93443 License: CC BY 4.0 Introduction The day’s 22nd January, 2024. The nation-state of India is witnessing the worst day in its history. The “Ram Temple” in Ayodhya is being inaugurated by an incumbent Prime Minister of a Constitutionally Secular nation! What a sorry, sad, extremely saddening, disheartening state of affairs. The Idea of India as posed by the stalwarts such as Gandhi, Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh and others lay in the dust, trampled by the cacophonous, commodified spectacle of the Hindutvavadin’s dream-project: the undivided Hindu nation-state. It is nothing more than a politics of exclusion, of getting hold of the electorate by sheer money an