Narendra Damodardas Modi won the Indian federal election with a sweeping majority, nay, by annihilating the opposition yet again, and will now become its 15 Prime Minister for another term of 5 years. Or he might rule perhaps for the next 10, 15 or even 25 years if he can physically manage, because, more than the results, a paradigm shift has emerged in the psychology of the Indian voter brought to fruit by a strategic mix of divisiveness, hate and religious animosity. Narendra Modi and his Man Friday (Saturday to Thursday too), Amit Shah, the President of the right wing Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), delivered 350+ seats for their party and its allies out of a total of 542. Consequently, the right wing have come to the Everest heights it had always sought in Indian polity. This victory is a result of a well-planned strategic effort undertaken by BJP’s controlling organization and its think tank, Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh (RSS). This is the National Volunteer Organization and is the heart and soul of the right wing Hindu nationalist movement, and has led it for close to a century. The vision of the RSS has been to build an India which is Hindu and ‘pure’ as they term it to be: clean of all infiltrators and devoid of anyone who does not accept the right of the Hindu majority to govern the nation. Since 1925, the RSS has worked to develop this idea as part of the Hindu ethos, but failed miserably in earlier decades in their efforts because Indians truly believed for centuries that Hinduism was more than a religion, but rather a way of life: one in which all were accepted and welcome. Not anymore. Not since a plan was envisaged by the RSS for the BJP when secular India crushed them to a party of just two seats in 1984 in a Parliament of 543. Then-leader of BJP and one of its founding fathers, Atal Bihari Bajpayee, continued to believe in a moderate agenda. The RSS said that it was time to unleash a strong tide of Hindu resurgence by invoking the image of a religion which cannot even protect its own God! A new leader took stage and Lal Krishna Advani, the mentor and Guru of Narendra Modi, unleashed the power of right-wing resurgence by building a campaign of Hindu pride and the right of Hindu majority rule. An issue of building a temple to worship Rama, the mythological warrior-king and a prime God of Hindus at his projected birthplace where a centuries-old mosque stood, ignited the fire. Over the next half of India’s life, that fire engulfed the entire nation slowly and steadily, and has resulted in identical election results delivered in 2014 and now in 2019. Narendra Modi has won. India has lost. “Hindu-stan” or the “place of Hindus” as it is also known, has won. This phrase actually sums up the Indian election of 2019. After all, this was all about right wing Hindu identity, otherwise known as Hindutava. Over the last five years, India has stepped backwards on innumerable counts. Its economy suffered a massive blow when one fine day in November 2016, Narendra Modi in his divine wisdom declared demonetisation and devoid the major currency notes of Rs.500 and Rs. 1000 of any value. Within hours the Indian growth story was struck a hammer blow from which it has not recovered till date, and millions lost jobs over the next few years while thousands of average businesses closed down. India lost at least 2% of its per-year growth, and demonetisation did not remove any black money from circulation, as proved by the data released by the federal bank of India. Yet, Indians chose to look away. Over the last five years, killings of minorities in the name of protecting cows by Hindu mob became a rule than a rarity. People getting burned alive or even cut to pieces just on the basis of hearsay that they were eating cow meat became a regular barbaric practice in Modi’s India. The perpetrators were treated as national heroes by BJP and the Hindu right wing. Yet Indians chose to look away. Thought control was everywhere, with any dissent getting instant “justice” from mobs in the form of death or beating and public humiliation. Secular people and liberals were marked out and were treated as social outcasts and were renamed “sick-ular” and “lib-tard” to create a new identity for them. Anyone speaking against Modi or the government’s ideology was declared anti-national, with even sedition charges being raised in some cases. Yet Indians chose to look away. Modi and Shah unabashedly developed an anti-Muslim sentiment and created a fear in the minds of Hindus that their religion was at threat. They escalated tensions with neighbouring Pakistan and almost brought South Asia to the verge of a nuclear war.