EAM Jaishankar has said lately that Westernisation is not an index of modernisation and progress any more in India. This is clearly a contradictory statement considering the ground situation across the country. We seem to be following the Western development model of building highways, expressways, launching Vande Bharat trains and getting ready to welcome bullet trains which a High Court judge recently has said that it is a pride for the nation while dismissing a petition against the land acquisition for the project. We have these new Vande Bharat trains being launched with metronomic regularity across the length and breadth of India. We also have Malls selling all kinds of things as in Western countries. Thus the social fabric of the Indian way of life has been distorted beyond imagination by these projects that ape the West. The BJP in any case is increasing its emphasis on Hindu religion on the lines that fascist Germany did with the Nazi philosophy.
