NEW DELHI, April 17 -- The saying "those who control the present can rewrite the past" is finding its fruition as the country is entering the last leg of the second term of the Narendra Modi government. The whimsical and covert deletions of chapters partially or fully from the NCERT textbooks for secondary and senior secondary students and the surreptitious altering of college-level syllabus by the University Grants Commission betray the hidden agenda of the Sangh Parivar-monitored government. A path is being readied for portraying the nation in a partisan manner. To understand the outrageous changes in textbooks to make it in tune with the right-wing ideology, one should look at the speed with which the present regime is pressing the del...