Khan Market Gang, Delhi Golf Club, Lutyens and the 'New' Elite of India - An Aspiration? A Podcast

Call him a Globe Trotter, an Academic and one that you won't miss at any Lutyens Party - Aryan D'Rozario is here to discuss a rather niche subject as the first guest on the Vimarsa Podcast. A University of Oxford Graduate, Aryan speaks on 'elitism' in South Asia and how members belonging to such identities perceive themselves in a post-colonial 'state of being' in Narendra Modi's India. He is the man who rose to power against the undefined old elites of India, the Gandhis of the Congress Party. Since Mr Modi rose to power, the spatial configuration of Khan Market and the exclusive Delhi Golf Club have emerged to be associated with the liberal intelligentsia and post-independence identity.
In New Delhi today, members of the Delhi Golf Club and Residents of the coveted Lutyens Neighbourhood are considered an allegory of this Khan Market gang - Spaces Of Elitism.
What makes these people 'clubbable' and 'appropriate' for membership and whether that is something the Indian on the street should aspire to be part of is discussed with much fun and banter by two lifelong friends.
Is the New Indian aspiring to be anglicised in Modi's India?

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Isn't it surprising how easily they forget about the large vernacular-speaking elite outside the confines of South Delhi and South Mumbai? This elite group has been systematically ignored and deliberately targeted by those who admire and support the East India Company, especially before 2014. Interestingly, now that the relics of the East India Company and its loyalists have lost power to the vernacular-speaking elites of India, there seems to be a sudden outcry from the old supporters who now find themselves in a predicament.

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Great interview

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