BHARATA BHARATI

India is completely alone—the Russia-India-China love-fest is just marketing. That is the bad news and also the good news. If everyone—the US Deep State, Whitehall, the CCP, ISI, and Soros—is against India, it means India matters. Someone said India is the ultimate swing state. No—India is the incipient superpower, the only one that can make it a G3 rather than a G2. – Prof. Rajeev Srinivasan

I am personally very pro-America, yet I too have been baffled by the noises emanating from the Donald Trump administration regarding India, particularly from one aide. Peter Navarro, apparently some trade muckity-muck, has had a field day accusing India of various sins. Apart from the entertainment value, this leads to a serious question: Why? And why now?

There is reason to believe, by connecting the dots, that there is indeed a method behind this madness. It is not a pure random walk: there is a plan, and there are good reasons why the vicious attack on India has been launched at this time and in this manner. Of course, this is based on open source and circumstantial evidence: I have no inside information whatsoever.

In this context, consider what is arguably the greatest political thriller of all time: Z (1969) by Costa-Gavras. It is based on a real-life political murder in Greece, where a popular Left-leaning candidate for president was covertly assassinated by the ruling military junta.

The way the plot unravels is when the investigating magistrate, masterfully played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, notices a curious phenomenon: the use of a single phrase, “lithe and fierce like a tiger”, used verbatim by several eyewitnesses. He realises that there was a criminal conspiracy to get rid of the inconvenient candidate, with plausible deniability. Words and phrases have subtle meanings, and they reveal a great deal.

Thus, let me bring to your notice the following tweets:

• “India could end the Ukraine war tomorrow: Modi needs to pick a side” (August 5)
• “Europeans love to whinge about Trump and to claim he is soft on Russia. But after 3 years it is Donald J. Trump who has finally made India pay a price for enabling Putin’s butchery.” (August 6)
• Speaker: “[the American taxpayer] gotta fund Modi’s war”. TV Anchor (confused): “You mean Putin’s war?”. Speaker: “No, I mean Modi’s war”. (August 28)

Do you, gentle reader, notice a pattern?

Now let me tell you who the authors of these posts are. The first quoted an article by an officer in the British Special Forces, which means their covert, cloak-and-dagger military people.

The second was by Boris Johnson, former British Prime Minister. Johnson, incidentally, has been accused of single-handedly spiking ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine in 2022, when there was a possibility that the whole sorry spectacle of the war could have been settled/brought to a close.

The third is by the aforementioned Peter Navarro on an American TV channel.

It seems to me that these three statements are lineal descendants of each other, one leading seamlessly to the next.

This is how narratives are built, one brick in the wall after another. In reality, India has not contravened any sanctions in buying oil from Russia and, in fact, has helped maintain a cap on oil prices, which were rising because of the Ukraine-Russia war. But then who needs truth if narrative will suffice?

My hypothesis is that the anti-India narrative—as seen above—has been created by the British Deep State, otherwise known as Whitehall. First from the spooks, then from the former prime minister, and then virally transmitted to the American Deep State. It is my general belief that the British are behind much mischief (sort of the last gasp of Empire) and have been leading the Americans by the nose, master-blaster style.

Britain has never tasted defeat at the hands of Russia, while France (Napoleon) and Germany (Hitler) have. Also, the US Military Industrial Complex makes a lot of money from war.

A malignant British meme, intended to hurt Russia, is now turned on to India, which is, for all intents and purposes, an innocent bystander. Britain has had a thing about both Russia (“The Great Game”) and now India, and it was precisely why it created “imperial fortress” Pakistan, with which to trouble, and if possible, hurt both.

Then there was the second set of tweets that took things one step further. Navarro, all warmed up, blamed “Brahmins” for “profiteering by buying Russian oil at the cost of the Indian people” in a broadcast on September 1. Why he would be bothered about the “Indian people” is a good question. But what was far more interesting, indeed hilarious, was the near-simultaneous and absurdly wrong set of tweets by a whole group of INDI Alliance mavens.

They “explained”, in almost identical words, that what Navarro meant was not “Brahmins”, but “Boston Brahmins”, coined in 1860 by Oliver Wendell Holmes, a doctor/essayist, to refer to traditional US East Coast elites, generally WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) who dominate the corridors of power in the US. Many claim to be descended from the original Pilgrims, Puritan extremists from Britain, who arrived in Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620.

They go to private (“prep”) schools like Philips Exeter Academy, then Harvard or Yale, then Goldman Sachs, then Harvard Business School, and generally end up running the country as a hereditary, endogamous caste. It is very difficult for outsiders to marry into or enter this circle, although money helps. For example, the Irish Catholic Kennedy clan is part of this caste because they made big bucks (partly by smuggling liquor during the Prohibition era), even though the Irish are generally looked down upon.

I have long claimed that America is full of castes like this, which include the investment-banker caste, the lawyer caste, and the doctor caste: all go to the same schools and the same colleges, marry each other, etc. In fact, they do form the kind of exclusionary group that the Western narrative imputes to India’s jati-varna. Anyway, that’s a long story, and that’s not the point: it is the tweets by, for example, Karti Chidambaram, Sagarika Ghose, et al.

They were so “spontaneous”, so near-identical, and so outright idiotic that it is impossible that they came from anything other than a “toolkit” supplied by the usual suspects: the regime-change specialists. And their claim was not even accurate: Navarro was indeed targeting Hindus and Brahmins, as is evident from the following tweet. There is no earthly reason for him to choose this image of Modi, other than that he was coached into doing so.

So we go back to the original question: why? Who hates Hindus so much?

There are a number of other incidents where Indians (in particular Hindus) have been targeted in various countries: Ireland recently; Australia some time ago and again now (see below an anti-immigration (particularly anti-Indian) rally on August 31); and Canada with its Khalistanis running amok (lest we forget, 40 years ago, they downed Air India Kanishka).

Let us note the curious coincidence that these are all countries where the British have influence: Canada and Australia are in effect their vassals. Ireland is not, and I suspect the British are hated there, but somehow in the last few weeks, this British prejudice has spilt over, with “Irish teenagers” physically attacking Indians (including women and children). I wonder if the “Irish teenagers” are really British agents provocateurs.

So let’s put two and two together: who hates Indians, Hindus and Brahmins? Why, Pakistanis, of course. And they have been burnt a little by Operation Sindoor. Pahalgam didn’t quite turn out the way they thought it would, considering it was scheduled during the India visit of J.D. Vance accompanied by his Indian/Hindu-origin wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance. That might explain why there’s a sudden explosion of social-media hatred by ISI and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bots against Indians.

Pahalgam was Phase 2 of the regime-change operation. By so visibly targeting and murdering Hindus in Pahalgam, the Pakistanis calculated they could induce massive rioting by Hindus against Muslims, which would be an excuse for “the rules-based liberal international order” to step in, exile Modi, and… um… restore order, as in Bangladesh. The usual playbook.

Alas, “the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley”, and Pakistan got a whipping instead, and some of their (US or China-supplied?) nuclear assets apparently went up in smoke. But make no mistake, the regime-change gang will redouble its efforts.

Phase 1 had been the 2024 elections, where there were surprising losses by the BJP. Phase 3 is the “vote-chori” wailing by the INDI Alliance. Phase 4 is the ongoing “Project 37” in which renegade BJP MPs are supposed to bring down the central government.

Pakistan, and its various arms, including the Khalistan project, participate with great enthusiasm in these various phases. And for all intents and purposes, the UK has now become a Pakistani colony. Recursive master-blaster, as I conjectured: Pakistani-Britons control Whitehall; Whitehall controls the US Deep State. Here’s Britain’s new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, in the words of a suddenly awake Briton on September 6.

An Emirati strategist, Amjad Taha, asked a valid question: why is there more terrorism in the UK than in the Middle East?

Wait, there’s more. Here’s a loudmouth Austrian who wants to dismantle India, long a Pakistani dream. And the map is by some Jafri, which sounds like a Pakistani surname. The Austrian also wants Rahul Gandhi to be the next Prime Minister.

Pakistan is itself unravelling, as can be seen in Baluchistan, which is in open rebellion. Their Khalistani dream is new, but Kerala and the Northeast as Islamist entities were standard memes even from Chaudhury Rehmat Ali, who dreamt up Pakistan in the first place in the 1930s.

From a global perspective, I believe that both China and the US are intent on kneecapping India. That is the logical response from an incumbent power when there is a rising insurgent power: the Thucydides Trap idea. It is a backhanded compliment to India that it is in splendid isolation and has to pretend to rush into the arms of China because of Trump’s withering assault.

India will survive the hate, but Indian-Americans may find themselves in some jeopardy as the Make America Great Again types are now focusing their ire on them.

It is, as I said, the Abhimanyu Syndrome: India is completely alone—the Russia-India-China lovefest is just marketing. That is the bad news and also the good news. If everyone—the US Deep State, Whitehall, the CCP, ISI, and Soros—is against India, it means India matters. Someone said India is the ultimate swing state. No: India is the incipient superpower, the only one that can make it a G3 rather than a G2. Naturally, the G2 are not very happy to let one more into their cosy club. – Firstpost, 9 September 2025

› Prof. Rajeev Srinivasan is a management consultant and columnist, and a fan of art cinema.