India, Oct. 22 -- For over six decades after independence, "the Establishment" in Lutyens' Delhi comprised people belonging to the Nehruvian-Marxist, pseudo-secular consensus. These ideological brothers-in-arms influenced everything - from school curriculum to public policy to history writing - and built up a false narrative that systematically debunked and condemned India's civilisational journey.

Such was the influence of this consensus that it successfully managed to draw away three generations of Indians born after independence from the country's great heritage and also inject a sense of shame among citizens about their own past. Much of this damage was done by Left-leaning politicians, bureaucrats and academics, who ensured through ...