It isn’t surprising that a large section of the western commentariat is ill-equipped to grasp the exuberant and deep resonance of the Indian populace with the Ram Mandir inauguration in Ayodhya. The inability to do so is often a case of lack of frames; the blinkered view missing most of the landscape.
Similarly, it isn’t also new to see that such blind spots aren’t in short supply among a section of Indian opinion-makers. They have formulaically used the same frames. And in the process, they have got smug with the borrowed view. Behind a veil of sophistication, these Indians have been trying to conceal their lack of original tools to decipher events like the consecration of the Ram Lalla idol in Ayodhya. In essence, their bemusement is a crisis of inadequate frames and reveals the limits of borrowed tools.
