This may interest list members:

The Reactionary Present, by Ananya Vajpeyi, The Hindu.

"Under a government of the Hindu Right, India is witnessing yet another phase of reaction and orthodoxy, a return to medieval Brahminical values that seek to monopolise rights for a select few and turn everyone else out of the body politic."

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-reactionary-present/article7727181.ece


Audrey Truschke
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Religious Studies
Stanford University