India stands polarized today - at least in appearance. But the vehemence of the spectacle is undeniable. The left blames the right for creating 'polarisation' in society and the right accuses the left of endangering the country's unity by imposing a simulation.Whether the polarisation is real or a Baudrillardian conjuration, is for the future to tell. The charges, mostly crude when traded publicly, have facets, dimensions, and layers that mostly end up veiled under the proliferation of words and images. It is not my intention here to pass to any general judgments or reach any sweeping conclusions here. The sheer dimension and complexity of the case are enough to bewilder and incapacitate any objective spectator seeking to embark on such ambitious analysis. I will, therefore, restrict myself to two critical charges in their particularity - that of the intellectual bankruptcy of the right and the intellectual dishonesty of the left -and to proposing a specific thesis about the philosiphico-theological history of modern India.
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