It is a highly developed country in an advanced state of decay.”Ways of imagining India have been both capacious and conflicting. The genre of the propaganda film, once dismissed as poor art, now a formidable box-office phenomenon, has the blessings and the support of the nation’s dominant political authorities. In a strange twist of irony, the spirituality of the vishwaguru now also sustains, and is sustained by, the blood-lust of the Dhurandhar. Most alarmingly, top-down political rhetoric has now found mass-celebration. How can we not see the failure of the vishwaguru in the brutality of the Dhurandhar?

Source: The Telegraph January 08, 2026 02:21 UTC