The way that Indian English-speaking upper middle class/managerial class think is really really out of touch with the ground reality. These people are much more immersed in environmentalism, social justice issues, feminism because inside their heads they're living in a 1st world

western country. There is remarkable uniformity in their opinions too, especially the millennials & zoomers; for example nearly all of them support Gay marriage, transgenders in the Army, marital rape laws, affirmative action, extremely punitive environmental regulations, etc

and for them any sense of caste, religious, civilisational, or heck, even national identity, is something to be discarded or at least kept at a certain distance. This 'gated community' class gives us the bulk of our serious journalists, academics, judges and public intellectuals,

so it's no wonder then that the decisions popular in policy circles are so remarkably different from the way that the average Indian would think. Decisions like firecracker bans, women's entry into restricted temples, subsidisation of inter-caste marriages are not popular with a

vast majority of the Indian population, but they are popular with a vast majority of the managerial class, so they end up being pushed through, especially so since the managerial class and the plutocratic class are so well aligned with each other in India.