Sonali Ranade: Modi Is on a Civilisational Mission – Please Excuse a Few Grand Lies
NB: A perceptive analysis. The focus on Modi, however, is appropriate only in an immediate sense. It should not detract from the cultivated sense of victimhood and ideologically manipulated 'History' that underpins the doctrine of the RSS, the BJP's parent organisation. The concept of the nation-state as a homeland for a homogenously defined 'majority' was propagated by the Paris Peace Treaty of 1919, and subsequently used by dreamers of absolute power through the 1930's with disastrous consequences.
This Western dogma exemplifies the dishonest atheism of nation-worship. But we cannot say how long the nightmare will last. Ideologically induced inebriation is akin to a stone in the head - not soluble by reason or logic. It is the most deadly instrument for the dissolution of both intellect and conscience. DS
Studying the person, the persona, and the phenomenology that is entwined with what Modi stands for in popular imagination offers some insights. Modi is the simulacrum of a deeply held, and popular, aspiration in our collective psyche – which is to restore India, or Bharat, to its past glory and honor. The path of ‘losing’ this glory is thought to have begun circa 1026 CE, when the Somnath temple was plundered and laid waste by invaders from the Northwest.
Many invasions since, including 200 years under British rule are believed to have resulted in this ‘loss’. Whether this perception is based on our objective past or not, it is a theme deeply embedded in every Hindu imagination. It is widely shared among liberals, and ‘illiberals’. To deny it is to deny your very self.
To his core
supporters, Modi is not merely a persona or a politician. He embodies an
indestructible idea, nay a deeply held faith, that the ‘Indian civilisation’,
warts and all, long denied its due, must be restored to a respectable place
under the sun. You cannot view the Modi phenomenon as something distinct from
this collective aspiration. In fact, Modi has become the embodiment of this
popular yearning.
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Modi championed the
‘Hindu civilisational project’ long before it was mainstream. He lived with
ignominy of championing something deeply unpopular, and contrary to the
dominant idea of India, for decades until he was able to use the propaganda
resources of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to turn the tables on his
detractors within the Bharatiya Janata Party and outside.
In the popular imagination of BJP’s expanded core vote base, Modi is this ‘Hindu civilisational project’ in person. And Modi plays to this perception with consummate artistry. The shots of him meditating alone in a Kedarnath cave are of a piece of this creative folklore….
https://thewire.in/politics/modi-is-on-a-civilisational-mission-dont-mind-a-few-grand-lies
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