https://shs.cairn.info/journal-esprit-2020-6-page-123?lang=en By Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan Pages 123 to 133 T he contemporary image of India is that it is the land of the people who gained independence from British colonial rule through a great freedom struggle under the leadership of the Congress party and the spiritual guidance of M. K. Gandhi. Today, India projects and propagates its culture as the sum of Hindu religion, yoga, peace, and Gandhi as their mascot. This image was produced through concerted efforts such as the Oscar winning propaganda film Gandhi made by Richard Attenborough and the National Film Development Corporation of India in 1982. We know that everything gets complicated once we begin to wander the texts and the streets of each country. Behind this image is hidden away and continues, unopposed, the millennia old oppression of nearly 90 per cent of the population in India, the lower castes people by the nearly 10 per cent upper ca...