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Anti-Hinduism is an industry. It has a purpose and an end goal. It has financial means institutional set-up and a tradition of sponsored intellectuals occupying important positions, protecting vested interests of their own. It began during colonial era during the reign of the East India Company and then the British Raj. The story of how missionaries and colonialists slandered Hindu civilization and culture in the heyday of racism is a well-known one not to be dwelt upon here. Suffice to say that a certain section of the ruling elite found it profitable to abuse Hindu culture and society. This narrative morphed into an industry after Independence. Gandhi's assassination gave Nehru an excuse to stifle all opposition particularly the nationalists. Under Indira Gandhi and Education Minister Nural Hasan, anti-Hinduism became firmly entrenched in academia and media. Its steady growth and dominance in the electronic and print media became unchallengeable. As a consequence Soviet-sponsored Leftist intellectuals became all-pervasive and powerful. Their opponents were systematically silenced. Nationalists were hounded out of public discourse. Almost no mainstream newspaper magazine or media outlet would give them the opportunity to voice their opinions and state facts. The demise of the global left in the 90s and the rise of the BJP in India gave new hope to the dwindling nationalist forces in the media and academia; but it was a bleak respite. Meanwhile, on another platform something entirely different was occurring. The Internet had given birth to the phenomenon of social media. It was decentralized and impossible to control by any single ideology or institution. Even the governments were ineffective against it. First Orkut then Facebook and Twitter took the Indian online community by storm convincing the common man that now he had a voice. For the first time, Indians realized that they did not have to