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September 06, 2014

India: New outlets acknowledge the need for Right-wing discourse to calmly and cogently contribute to the intellectual fray

When the more extreme Right-wingers on the internet talk about Lutyens’ Delhi, they aren’t referring to a physical place: they are actually talking about an idea they have that all those Raj-era bungalows and office hallways are steeped in the Nehruvian-Socialist discourse they despise. To them, this imaginary place is the home of the intelligentsia they believe has long charted the nation's story. For these Right-wingers, the real estate of Lutyens’ Delhi includes TV studios, op-ed pages and the drawing room conversations that have a stranglehold on the idea of India.

Now, with its favoured government in power, it seems the Right is finally ready to change this.

http://scroll.in/article/677796/India%27s-Right-wing-commentariat-is-carving-a-less-angry-space-for-itself-on-the-Web