The War We Are Not Fighting At All.

Bharat has always been a warrior civilisation. From the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata to the historic battles of Haldighati and Sinhagad, our collective memory is soaked in sacrifice and dharmic struggle. We defeated Mughals, Portuguese, French, and even the mighty British Empire, all on the battlefield. Yet today, we are being defeated without a single sword drawn, without a single bullet fired. Why? Because the war we now face is not being fought at all. This is not a war of borders but of brains. It is not fought in trenches but in textbooks, tweets, talk shows, and trending videos. This is ideological warfare, a new-generation battle that infiltrates classrooms, cinema halls, living rooms, dining tables, and finally, the individual mind. The weapons are no longer rifles and missiles. They are narratives, identity confusion, moral relativism, woke activism, and consumerist culture and the most dangerous part? Most of us don’t even know it’s happening.

Take a moment and look at how history has been rewritten. Our school textbooks have reduced India’s civilizational pride to footnotes. Mughal invaders are glorified, while Shivaji, Maharana Pratap, or Veer Savarkar are either demonized or ignored. NCERT history whitewashes centuries of brutalities like the destruction of Kashi Vishwanath or the horrors of the Goa Inquisition. Even the Aryan Invasion Theory, thoroughly debunked by modern science and archaeology, is still used to pit North against South, Hindus against Dalits, and break the national atma into identity fragments. While the classroom kills pride, the cinema hall assassinates dharma. Today’s Bollywood and OTT content have mastered the art of civilisational sabotage. Shows like Tandav, Leila, and Sacred Games portray Hinduness as regressive, temples as corrupt, and saffron as fascist. In PK, Lord Shiva is chased for laughs, while no other faith dares be touched. On one hand, The Kerala Story, which exposed the dangerous reality of radicalisation, faced bans and boycotts. On the other, films like Pathaan glorify Pakistani agents and are hailed as secular victories. This is not entertainment; it’s psychological warfare.

In our universities, the story is no different. Top Institutions have become breeding grounds for anti-nationalism. Students glorify Marx, Afzal Guru and Mao, while demonising Krishna and Rama as patriarchal villains. Professors freely quote Marx but never mention Chanakya, Dayananda, or Vivekananda. Identity politics, caste guilt, and victimhood narratives are drilled into young minds, ensuring they grow up with self-hate and civilizational confusion. Academic subversion is the new missionary, converting not your religion, but your loyalty. Our homes are under attack too, not with weapons, but with food, apps, influencers, and ideologies. Ayurveda is mocked as pseudoscience while lab-grown meat is sold as the future. Vedic fasting is seen as superstition, while “intermittent fasting” by Hollywood stars is worshipped. Dating apps replace marriages, porn replaces love, and indulgence replaces restraint. The temple is now a photo spot, not a sacred space. Dharma is diluted and replaced with dopamine.

Even the state and economy are no longer untouched. Globalist institutions push woke policies like ESG, DEI, and SDG frameworks that sound nice but choke Bharatiya businesses and dharmic life. Courts ban Diwali crackers in the name of pollution but dare not touch Bakrid animal slaughter. Our temples remain state-controlled while foreign-funded NGOs operate with full freedom, often attacking the very civilisation that hosts them. This is lawfare, legal warfare designed to undermine national interests from within and yet, despite this all, there is no much resistance. The political class is confused. The intellectual class is compromised and the youth are distracted by reels and trends. The nationalist ecosystem is reactive, not proactive. We chant slogans on January 26th and go back to Netflix the next day. We want GDP without cultural pride. Development without Dharma. Growth without roots.

The truth is brutal: Bharat is not being destroyed by external enemies. It is being hollowed out from within and we are letting it happen. This is a silent civilisational suicide, disguised as progress. We are raising a generation that speaks fluent English but cannot recite a shloka. That celebrates Valentine’s Day but mocks Raksha Bandhan. That knows Kim Kardashian’s diet but not Kalidasa’s wisdom. So, what must we do? First, recognise that this is a war ,  real, psychological, and existential. Second, reclaim our narratives: from textbooks to newsrooms, from movie scripts to classrooms. Third, raise cultural warriors, not confused consumers. Let every home be a training ground of dharmic pride. Let every teacher be a rishi, not a propagandist. Let our technology serve Dharma, not dilute it. Bharat has survived worse  but only when it woke up in time. Today, time is not on our side. The enemy is not just at the border. He is inside your syllabus, your social media, your shopping apps, and your thoughts and he doesn’t need to conquer you, he just needs you to stop caring.

This is the war we are not fighting at all. But it is the only war that truly matters now.

(The views expressed are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the position of the organisation)