I hope you all had a merry Christmas. I’ve been in a bit of a rabbit hole for the past few weeks, and I’ve discovered a few uncomfortable things are happening in India right now. This part one out of a three part expose, and hopefully I will have covered everything by that time because there is just too much.
You know Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech millionaire, the Harvard-Yale guy, the guy who’s been doing everything he can to be the next republican presidential nominate. Slick, nice suit, decent at debate. He takes meetings barefoot and says it is “grounding him in Hindu principles”. He “detoxes” with cow dung baths and says it is an “ancient science”. He speaks in rapid, dense monologues that mix libertarian capitalism, right-wing talking points, and, most importantly, Hindu civilizational pride.
To a western mind, this seems like a contradictory mishmash of techbro, mystic, and politician. Is he any of these? Is he a contradiction? The answer is no. He is the modified export version of a political and cultural phenomenon currently reshaping India. He is not a foreign oddity and is instead the carrier of an ideology that swaps a dhoti for a suit. He wears western consumerism but keeps the same core wiring: civilizational grievance, conspiratorial mindsets, and a blend of ancient symbolism with modern ambition: a non-resident Saffron Glowie.
A Saffron Glowie, for lack of a better term, is essentially a member of a vast, informal network of ideological enforcers orbiting around India’s Hindu nationalist movement. They operate across bureaucracy, media, law, and digital space, motivated by a belief that they are defending a 5,000 year old Hindu civilization from existential threat.
They are not a formal agency, more of a shared mindset in government offices, police stations, TV channels, and Whatsapp groups. They get their power from merging state tools with religious zeal; filing lawsuits, withholding permits, maintaining twitter hashtags, all in the name of “cultural defense”. They can range from absurdly incompetent to frighteningly effective, and sometimes both at once.
Want to know who we’re dealing with? How about a secret project to build a device in a garage that broadcasts Vedic chants over FM to “calm anti-nationalist sentiments” in university campuses? How about government ministries having meetings discussing “astrological defense” and using yantras (mystical diagrams) in official buildings for “positive energy”? They genuinely believe Vedic frequencies can reprogram political dissent. Don’t believe me? Look up Project Shanti Beej, look up the 2019 Yediyurappa incident, the 2021 G. Kishan Reddy (Minister of State for Home) proclamation that the government uses “astrological observations” for policy planning.
Remember that one video posted earlier in the thread of a vigilante using a wooden plank with nails as a tool to puncture the tires of a cattle-transporting truck? What if I told you that not only is the cattle truck is controlled by a secret cow mafia, the vigilante is also a Saffron Glowie agent? Those guys are conducting an entire business model between several different Saffron Glowie branches.
Saffron Glowies are nearly omnipresent in India, because they are usually symbiotic with whatever organization is unfortunate enough to be infested by them. What they do to common people is it’s own long thing that deserves a long writeup, but as a teaser: shredding entire university syllabi out of nowhere, organizing lynch mobs (while being on the SIDE of lynch mobs), reporting common people for thoughtcrimes, and propagandizing so hard that common Indians play bingo about what’s next. These are all very real incidents, look at the 2021 University of Hyderabad ABVP vs Mahasweta Devi incident, the 2015 lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq for ‘beef possession’, the 2017 arrest of D. Shalini, and the entire phenomenon of the Sanghi Bingo (playing bingo on which common propaganda is going to get screamed today).
You’re dealing with an upper crust that has Mossad on their rolodexes, they’re sitting as strategists in think-tanks like the RSS-funded Bharatiya Vichar Kendra institute, hosting seminars like “Vedic AI for National Security”.
You’re also dealing with a grassroots militia of digital informants with names like “Hindu Ecosystem” that use whatsapp groups and cracked phone screens to coordinate sending rape threats to students and reporters, all in the name of preserving Hindutva. You cannot apply rational actor theory to a political landscape where the most rational act is to send rape threats and invoke a cosmic war.
Don’t believe me? You can check the Bharatiya Vichar Kendra, an RSS funded think tank funding studies into vedic supertech, you can check the Rashtriya Raksha University’s project to include Vedic texts into national security and policing, you can check the Rana Ayyub rape campaign incidents, but I want to close off with the guy who led me down this rabbit hole to begin with: our old friend Vivek.
Vivek Ramaswamy goes on a complete meltdown every single Christmas. “Ramaswamy says Christianity is under assault in America” (2023), “We need a ‘revival of Christian faith’ (2022), etc etc. And then he whines about being Hindu. This is not mental illness. This is a classic technique straight from India where he picks the most cosmologically significant time for an attempt at bizarre corrective glow-ops to merge civilizational grievances. It’s an attempt to infiltrate and sublimate. Check the work of scholars like Christophe Jaffrelot and Mohan Rao on ‘strategic syncretism’ and ‘majoritan appropriation’ in Hindu politics, and you’ll see that Ramaswamy is mirroring an actual domestic Hindu strategy.
This all brings us to the pipeline. Ramaswamy is salesman, and salesmen need operators, individuals that can translate Saffron Glowie governance code into the language of Washington. Kash Patel and the work he’s been doing to help figures like Ramaswamy is a whirlpool of dung so deep and consequential that it demands its own excavation. For now, just note the connection and wait for my next writeup. The translators are at work.
I hope you all have a Happy New Year, and I’ll see you in 2026. Ask any questions you have for now, and I’ll answer.