pretty enlightening!
Umesh
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Rajib Bhai wrote:
This line of thinking has one gap - a large number (and an overwhelming proportion) of the expats at least into the US is in the age group of 25 to 35. If you take it from there, there is a clear logical line of thinking as to why they would want to support the RSS / BJP worldview. Most of these young people come from emerging, great Indian middleclass underbelly and with a pan-Indian educational background. They find themselves professionally successful on their own merit - in many cases for the first time in their families. Success breeds confidence and that in turn invokes the search for a strong identity. Since these have been away from India for only a short while, the Indian connection is strong and the search for an identity finds a release in the mother country. Obviously the pan-Indian secular / communist / liberal identity that the Congress sought to bring in through 50 years after independence has not delivered the goods. It did not deliver on the economy, in the military, in cultural affairs or for that matter in any field of endeavor. Worst of all, it sought to take away a core part of the identity (social, cultural or religious) of a large majority of the society by shameless pandering of minority groups such as Muslims. In this perspective, the young, expat India's worldview (or India view) is no different than that of a young person from Mumbai or Guwahati or Chennai for that matter. |
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