Perhaps as a student of history a responsibility devolves upon to remain steadfast in adhering to recording of “Truth” based on facts that inherently must be sound and devoid of refutability. Imagination overdrive of historians normally ends up in distorting events. History shouldn’t be that fiction which deliberately leaves out the truth. History is a reality. There is no man or country that doesn’t have history.

To mine and several others’ chagrin, Narendra Modi has survived in office since 2012. If nothing happens, he will become the longest serving prime minister of India, beating the record of Jawaharlal Nehru. To mention the two diametrically opposite political characters in one sentence is a political and historical blasphemy. One stood for secular India while the other for Hindutva. A man of peace versus a man filled with hatred who willingly deploys the use of violence against the weak and the oppressed.

Nehru was popular because of his commitment to live and let live. He was a die-hard secularist. Modi is a political and religious fanatic. His politics has been of promoting hatred towards all religious minorities in India, especially the minority of over 200 million Muslims. Modi has been consistent in his destructive politics of subverting the secular Constitution of India. He has actually promoted Hinduism, not in its original format of being a religion of peace and tolerance, but as a victim of history, given the over a thousand years rule of Muslims in Hindustan. He has never masked nor regretted his politics of vengeance towards Muslims of India. He has systematically indulged in ethnic cleansing.

It all started with the genocide of Muslims in Gujarat, where Modi served as Chief Minister of the state. He never expressed regret or remorse. In fact that event emboldened him to pursue his bigotry. He indoctrinated, alongside with his political keeps, like Amit Shah, the concept of Hindutva into the youth of India. Thus far he has been successful. But Nature has its own plans.

Modi’s aim is to make Hindu-India. RSS, whose worker, Ghodse, was the........

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