Figure 1: Example of a rape threat from Hindutva accounts online amidst the India-Pakistan tensions in 2025 Hindutva is an immoral ideology, constructing India as a Hindu nation modeled after Nazi Germany. The production of the "Other" as a threat, as an immoral communicative act, threatens Hinduism at its heart. It perfects the art of communicative inversion, turning materiality on its head, that the ideology effectively seeds across the diverse registers of private, community, and public life. To the extent I am a victim, I can carry out the most immoral transgressions without being accountable. I have been wronged, the narrative goes, so I can legitimately discard the need for moral boundaries. References to the Hindu epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, are drawn in to uphold this degeneracy. The ethical and reflexive journey of Hinduism as a faith tradition, critically interrogating its workings to build spaces for transformation, is framed as anti-Hindu, or Hinduphobic. Th...
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among Structure, Culture, and Agency in shaping marginalisation and the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are continually being revised to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency.