Modi won an unprecedented mandate in the summer of 2014 going against all the collective wisdom of India’s national intelligentsia. And that has evoked many reactions since then – the latest being the clamor to return Akademi awards by writers and artists. The narrative processes that were being built by the Lutyens elite till now hinged on this creation of an atmosphere of “intolerance”. The myth of ‘attack on Christian missionaries’ early this year, followed by numerous stories of attacks on minorities being deliberately and microscopically enlarged eventually led to the creation of the “Dadri” syndrome which epitomized the fault-lines that were actively propounded to avenge 2014.