Not all genocides are active, some are passive and some are passively active. Bengal famine was a passively active genocide of people. There is a misconception that genocides don't happen now and especially in countries that appear stable. They do, it's just that they happen simultaneous to existence, cultural genocides, genocides of families and family cultures. For the most part these genocides are passively active. You live for quite a while and then if you are intelligent you realise that in modern times we are not living in cultures but in a hyperreality. The baffling thing for me to realise was that while the privileged live in a global hyperreality, the unprivileged and especially from third world countries and backward regions of those countries who on the outlook seem to be living in a proper culture are also living in hyperrealities, albeit of a local or regional nature. Life even in a third world country and even in the backward regions of third world countries is not authentic. If we are talking India, past twenty years have seen the dismantling and collapse of highly refined local cultures into mongrel cultures easier to manage and shame. The process had been initiated long back it's just that the people who were born in the early 1900s were still alive and thus carried the cultural authenticity within them. What is culture if not alignment to love and nature, and if you are a 90s kid you know it existed back then and you have seen it deteriorating in real-time since then as the exploitation increased and older generation gradually died. It's not that exploitation and rape were not present earlier, it's just that culture too was present which has been dismantled. The past decade taught me, which I found quite unbelievable for some time, that those who hold power actually want to delete refinement and aesthetics from the local cultures, retaining them just as tokens to show when someone from outside the culture comes and also weaponising local cultural expressions as objects of shame. The cultural genocide is complete by now, all that remains is a hierarchy at the top of which reside individuals with total disconnect to their cultures and roots in the name of cosmopolitanism and this cosmopolitanism requires them to desert their own culture in the name of modernity. Anyway the news is that highly refined local cultures of this land have collpased and what remains is a mongrel hyperreality and now we can all shove pizza slices in our assholes from the pointy side and become the national bird of this country.