Modernity is a dubious term in today’s India. Since the time of India’s independence, the average Indian has shamelessly imitated the West in the outer or material sphere, but claims to have retained the inner spiritual self, where his/her true ‘Indianness’ is to be found. Indian women, by default became the guardians of the inner spiritual sphere and are considered as the embodiment of pure, unpolluted, genuine ‘Indianness’.
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