PM Modi’s idea of Bharat goes beyond Lutyens makeover, challenges ‘European Enlightenment’

The Gymkhana Club (whose members had converted it into a closed club open only to their own progeny) is now administered by the government. Jawaharlal Nehru University has been placed in the successive care of vice-chancellors who would change its character if they could, while the liberal education-imparting Ashoka University has been taught the limits of liberalism. At the Delhi end of this larger effort, there is the capture or demolition of the habitats of the old elite. Think-tanks and various civil-society outfits inclined to do their own thing have been squeezed dry of funding, or are manned by people…