Two things are at the bottom of this:
- The growth of a middle class with relatively high standards of disposable income and an enforced command over English, often acquired in the work-place, who have technical training, imagine that their degree confirms that they are educated and search for their identity on the Internet, and swallow large quantities of toxic untruth as a result. They think that is the real picture.
- The horrifying corruption of UPA II, where, to keep clinging on to power, Sonia Gandhi abandoned all pretense of morality and allowed her allied parties to play havoc with the public finances. That has led to a Sanghi narrative that they as the RSS-BJP spearhead backed by religious sleazeballs like Asaram Bapu and others, they represent a moral approach to statecraft and add to it pragmatic, result-oriented decision-making as exemplified in Gujarat (a complete myth, but the Sanghi needs to believe in that).
You will find that most of these expats that you perceive as 'educated' are the products of the new colleges and universities, that train their students not for an education, but for an IT, financial services or human resources job (NO manufacturing; good engineers don't get their hands dirty on the shop-floor). So we have this rash of ill-read cartoons rampaging around the Internet polluting every discussion, and you have people like Oscar and Kaptaan frothing at the mouth at their insolence and complete abandonment of reason, reasonable behaviour and civility.
Welcome to the world of the Internet Hindu.
