Mohan Dutta: Culture-Centered Approach

The Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb, one of the key actors targeted with Hindutva's revisionism. As a scholar of communication studying the culture-centered approach as a framework for building narratives that articulate materiality, my work has long grappled with the intersections of culture, communication, and storytelling. From the spaces of Santali villages in rural West Bengal to the digital battlegrounds of global disinformation, I have witnessed how communicative infrastructures shape, sustain, and challenge power.  Wendy Doniger, one of the authors targeted by Hindutva One of the most insidious projects I have encountered in my scholarship is the fascist ideology of Hindutva, which seeks to rewrite India’s pluralist history into a monolithic narrative of a Hindu Rashtra (nation).  An example of a revisionist construction of history upholding the fascist ideology of Hindutva, peddled as decolonization. This project, with its roots in colonial constructs and fascist pedagogies...