Over the last seven decades, practitioners of Hindutva have moved from the position of condemnation to tactical acceptance of the constitution. However, their empty theatrics have failed them in their appropriation attempts.

The movement against corruption was bereft of any idea of justice. It maintained a studied silence on the rent-seeking corporate class which was complicit and the prime beneficiary. Prime Minister Modi built his campaign upon this flawed understanding.

The current regime deeply understands the power of political symbolism, which it uses to push its ideological agenda. For Hindutva, the spectre represents the 'ancient' civilisational values while the constitution is a banal and borrowed document, alien to Indian civilisation.

An inherent limitation of the political discourse of Hindutva is that it cannot provide substantive economic or social justice without destabilising itself.

The Banerjee-led TMC's consistent attacks on the Congress betray a commonality with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agenda at the national level.

The elevation of domestic terrorism as the biggest internal security threat by the US signals the beginning of the post-‘war on terror’ phase of global politics.

Seva enables the RSS to carry out the construction and reaffirmation of the Hindu identity at an everyday level, enabling it to garner goodwill of the people while posing as an ostensibly apolitical and cultural force.

Scindia’s switch is the result of his inability to imagine politics outside of power at a time of great churning in the country’s politics.

For the prime minister and the BJP, all politics is a question of security except for security itself – which is exploited for electoral and political gains.

Hundreds of women devotees are using their constitutional freedom to argue for their unfreedom – in line with the ascendant alt-right across the globe which is using liberalism itself to subvert its principles and hollow it out from within.