Power That Refused to Touch the Root

Governments rise and fall on policy. But nations are shaped by ideas. Since 2014, the Modi government has wielded unprecedented political power — yet made one catastrophic choice: it refused to confront the ideological ecosystem controlling education. Not weakened. Not challenged. Not even disturbed. While electoral victories piled up, the intellectual battlefield was quietly abandoned. And in politics, surrendering the classroom is the same as surrendering the future.

🧨 The Failure That Still Haunts the System

1. Two Terms, zero Urgency
Despite massive mandates, the government led by Narendra Modi made no serious attempt to reform the ideological architecture of education. Instead, it proudly claimed “non-interference” — as if neutrality in a captured system were a virtue.

2. The Myth of ‘Let Institutions Be.’
Education was treated as sacred ground best left untouched. But institutions don’t remain neutral by default. When one ideology dominates unchecked, non-intervention becomes complicity.

3. The Marxist Monopoly in Academia
For decades, curriculum, faculty recruitment, research grants, and intellectual discourse have been shaped by a narrow ideological lens. That ecosystem didn’t pause in 2014. It accelerated — because it data-faced no resistance.

4. From Empowerment to Grievance Manufacturing
Dalits were not empowered through skills, entrepreneurship, or integration. Instead, they were repeatedly fed a single narrative: permanent victimhood. Not to heal wounds — but to harden resentment and convert it into political currency.

5. The Atrocity Narrative as a Weapon
Atrocity discourse, once meant to protect the vulnerable, was repurposed as an ideological hammer. Every social interaction is reframed as oppression. Every disagreement is cast as caste violence. Grievance was cultivated, not resolved.

6. Appeasement Instead of Engagement
Rather than counter this with reform, dialogue, and social cohesion, the state chose appeasement. Strengthening punitive frameworks without parallel reform didn’t address injustice — it institutionalised anger.

7. When the State Arms the Grievance Industry
Policies and regulations, including recent academic rules under bodies like the University Grants Commission, are now perceived not as tools of balance, but as instruments that allow ideological vendettas to play out inside campuses.

⚖️ The Core Contradiction

You cannot claim to stand for social harmony while:

• Allowing one ideology to dominate minds

• Ignoring education for a decade

• And then compensating for that neglect by legal overreach

That isn’t justice.
That’s outsourcing social reform to coercion.

🧠 The Strategic Failure Nobody Admits

The Modi government won the elections.
But it lost narrative control.

It governed the state, while ceding the soul to an ecosystem hostile to its own vision.

And history is unforgiving to governments that confuse power with permanence.

🧨 The Closing Punch

You don’t dismantle ideological capture by ignoring it.
You don’t heal social wounds by weaponising resentment.
And you don’t build unity by feeding grievance while calling it justice.

The biggest mistake since 2014 wasn’t economic.
It wasn’t electoral.

It was allowing the classroom to remain the command centre of an ideology that thrives on permanent division.

And that bill — intellectual, social, and political — is still coming due.