{"id":1575,"date":"2016-04-22T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:11:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:11:40","slug":"anti-bhakt-humans-of-hindutva-bjp-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Bhakt One-Man Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<em>Humans of Hindutva, the popular Facebook parody page, was taken down on December 28 after its creator received death threats. <\/em> \n\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>n November, while the country was divided into sparring halves over demonetisation, a new website came into being. To the casual observer, it might seem like the mind behind <a href=\"http:\/\/satyanash.com\/\">http:\/\/satyanash.com\/<\/a> supported PM Modi, his notebandi, and all his other initiatives. \n\nBut look a little closer, and you realise that Satyanash is a sickular in bhakt\u2019s clothing, hiding a cutting, unfiltered critique of the government and right wing extremism behind a carefully crafted veneer of liberal-bashing.\n\nThis comes as no surprise to internet users who haven\u2019t been under a digital rock recently. Over the last six months, a Facebook page called Humans of Hindutva has steadily gained traction for the way it parodies both the millennial-baiting \u201cHumans of\u2026\u201d format and its pull-no-punches approach to calling out communal politicians and their droves of supporters.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27458\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1510382353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\n<figcaption><p>Satyanash is a sickular in bhakt\u2019s clothing.<\/p><p>\nSatyanash.com<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nHumans of Hindutva is operated by an anonymous admin, who uses his incognito status to fulfil the role of an anti-communal superhero. This Dark Knight of social media has, in less than a year, become an online phenomenon, the subject of numerous articles and interviews, and the target for a tidal wave of hate from the online bhakt army.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27459\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1510382382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\n<figcaption><p>Humans of Hindutva has steadily gained traction for the way it parodies both the millennial-baiting \u201cHumans of\u2026\u201d format and its pull-no-punches approach.<\/p><p>\nHumans of Hindutva\/Facebook<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nIf the HoH admin is Batman, then Satyanash is on track to become the Batcave. Just like the superhero\u2019s hideout is where he keeps his hi-tech suits and his bitchin\u2019 Batmobile, the Satyanash website is a repository for all of the anonymous admin\u2019s attacks on Hindutva. The tongue-in-cheek tone (it offers live weather updates from Ayodhya) reminds you of the kid in Biology class who was quiet throughout the year, but had an evil glint in his eye and a laundry list of uncomfortable questions when the lesson on human reproduction was being taught.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>He fights fire with fire and gives the right wing extremist crowd a dose of their own medicine<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nWhile other dissenters and anti-majoritarian critics have tried to distance themselves from the bile that people who are proud to be #FollowedByPMModi enjoy spewing, HoH stands out from the pack by gladly getting into the mud and wrestling the swine. Once the page gained popularity, the troll army descended en masse. Where the posts were once received with confusion (a perplexed bhakt once wondered why the page was attacking Hindutva and not Islamic terrorism), they now faced open hostility. What these bhakts failed to understand was that they were bringing a phooljari to a grenade fight.\n\nLooking at the way HoH handled the waves of protestors, one gets the feeling that the admin writes his taunts and insults with the same dedication that Shakespeare crafted <em>Macbeth<\/em>. With a mix of damning screenshots from bhakht profiles, hilariously out-of-context stock photos, and an arsenal of hilariously composed insults (\u201cBhaktimaan\u201d and \u201cfatherchod\u201d being two great examples), he fights fire with fire and gives the right wing extremist crowd a dose of their own medicine in ways that Faye D\u2019Souza or Anurag Kashyap never could.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27460\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1510382449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\n<figcaption><p>One gets the feeling that the admin writes his taunts and insults with the same dedication that Shakespeare crafted <em>Macbeth<\/em>.<\/p><p>\nHumans of Hindutva\/Facebook<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nSo, for those who don\u2019t believe the myth that government can do no wrong, the Satyanash website is like Christmas coming early. It was announced on the HoH page as the admin\u2019s way of celebrating Anti-Black Money Day, but what it really represents is the scaling up of the anti-communal agenda. Even while operating under the limitations of protecting his identity (for good reason), fighting against Facebook\u2019s restrictive community guidelines, and weathering months of abuse and reports from the troll army, this faceless crusader has managed to gather enough resources to set up an independent platform for his views. It\u2019s the first of its kind, in that it\u2019s as relentless in its takedowns of the government is as the BJP is in their takedowns of Rahul Gandhi.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27461\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1510382421.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\n<figcaption><p>For those who don\u2019t believe the myth that government can do no wrong, the Satyanash website is like Christmas coming early.<\/p><p>\nHumans of Hindutva\/Facebook<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nWith the advent of Satyanash, finally, for the first time since March 2014, non-bhakts have a reason to say, \u201cAcche din aa gaye.\u201d Meanwhile all that the troll army can do is lament, \u201cSatyanash ho gaya!\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While other dissenters have tried to distance themselves from the bile spewed by bhakts, Humans of Hindutva stands out from the pack by gladly 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