ABSTRACT
American President Donald Trump assured everyone that the world would now be ‘a much safer place’. The world has learnt to treat the symptoms of terrorism but is unable to address the disease itself. The days of running with the hares and hunting with the hounds are probably not gone. National leaders crisscross the globe, busily attending meetings for one or another of these organizations. The underlying story behind this mushrooming of regional organizations is that there is an acute desperation on the part of most nations to do something quickly to arrest the growing popular disenchantment with an existing growth model that is weighted heavily in favour of an increasingly small section of people. In the cultural realm, particularly in the way in which the cow is being venerated or in the way Hindu mythology is being glorified beyond proportion, Hinduism, now increasingly indistinguishable from Hindutva, resembles a tribal, animistic religion.
