Nitish Exit May Lead Voters To Conclude That INDIA Bloc Is Not Stable To Be Able | News18 For a while now, we were being told that Bharat needs the INDIA bloc. And that it provides an important antidote to the alleged miasma of Moditva. A lead intellectual from the INDIA bloc ranks, Shashi Tharoor, once described Moditva as “cultural nationalism anchored in the RSS doctrine of Hindutva, but extending beyond it. On top of the foundation of Hindutva—a reactionary and regressive doctrine, with its roots in the ‘racial pride’ ethos that spawned fascism in the 1920s—it builds the idea of a strong leader, powerful and decisive, who embodies the nation and will lead it to triumph.” The “strong leader” needed to be stopped as his ten-year reign as prime minister has thrived on “cruelty, fear, division and violence.”