> "I see a monitoring and surveillance system on farmers and traders," says Ramdas. "It's very Orwellian, our Animal Farm."

Mr. Ramdas may be confusing his Orwell stories a bit :) Although I gave it a shot, it's difficult to draw many parallels between the Soviet allegory of Animal Farm and post-independence India.

(I'm commenting on this inconsequential line because I don't have much to say about the larger article beyond "religious extremism sucks")