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After having wreaked havoc in its place of origin—the United States and western Europe—the hydra of wokism has turned its heads towards a new market: India. However, unlike in the West, the wokes find it challenging to run their business in Bharat. Why? Unlike the West, the multifaceted and diverse nature of Indian society makes it challenging to make generalizations and, consequently, to promote simplistic narratives. In the West, it is very convenient to brand the family and the church as evil. But in a society like India, which has no organized church in the same sense as the West, defining evil becomes extremely difficult. In a society like ours where homosexuals never face any kind of discrimination based on religious dogma, it becomes a complex task for the wokes to apply their template. They do try, but the attempts are laughable and clearly hypocritical. While in the West, wokes may still maintain some pretence of activism or concern for the weak; in the Bhartiya context, this veil comes off the moment they open their mouths. Their failure is primarily due to their Hindutva for Gen Z cluelessness about how to apply their woke template, which was perfected for Western society, in the Bharatiya context. To understand the situation better, let’s take a look at some examples from recent memory to exhibit how, time and again, the wokes have embarrassingly exposed themselves in India. In 2020, the Indian government implemented new agricultural reforms aimed at transforming Indian agriculture into a competitive industry. However, the movement gained momentum when over 3,00,000 farmers reportedly marched to New Delhi to protest against these reforms. While the farmers may have had legitimate concerns and their grievances needed to be heard, some of the most articulate left-leaning wokes, such as Greta Thunberg, and even the oblivious artist Rihanna weighed in on the Indian farm imbroglio, pledging support to the farmer protests.