Amidst the celebrations of the 75th Republic Day, the news of religious slogans being raised on the Aligarh Muslim University’s Campus by some students in the National Cadet Corps(NCC) uniform made headlines.
This article expands on the problem of polarization in name of caste and religion identity politics in India and presents Hindutva as a solution to this issue.
On a surface level, the phrase “If you are not a socialist when you are young, you have no heart and if you are not a capitalist when you are old, you have no brain” makes sense but a 1984 interview by an ex-KGB spy might state otherwise.