India, Feb. 28 -- Indian politics has perfected a brutal art - the art of manufacturing morality, weaponizing outrage, and then pretending innocence when the same weapons are turned inward. What we are witnessing over the past decade is not just a contest of ideologies or governance models. It is the exposure of a cruel, cyclical system where power is pursued through public humiliation, narrative manipulation, and institutional combat. Every party that ascends the throne does so on the shoulders of accusation, and every party that falls cries vendetta. This is not ideology; this is a revolving door of political karma.

When the UPA government led by Manmohan Singh was in power, a nationwide moral spectacle was staged in the name of anti-c...