Them versus them

The idea that there are two Indias is not new. For intellectual convenience, one is called India, the other Bharat. One is shining, the other declining. One lives in cities, the other in villages. One is generally upper caste Hindu, the other is Scheduled or backward caste, tribal or Muslim. One is white collar, the other in agriculture. But our thinking has become so numbed by these established notions that we are missing another division in India, in fact, in Shining India.

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