On May 14, 2008, at 9:31 AM, ravi wrote:
In India the formula is much the same as in the US: religion. I am not sure what it will take for the left to gain power, but the right seems to be able to cross the threshold only through appeal to fear and other "baser" instincts.
I heard a very interesting presentation by Meera Nanda last year on the new religiosity in India. She said it was the yuppies who are the biggest adherents now, embracing some weird New Agey version of Hinduism. That's not from fear and other base instincts, but maybe some comfort in the midst of an "all that's solid melts into air" class transformation?
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