India, April 7 -- As India rises on the global stage, it is beginning to confront and reclaim narratives long buried by post-independence consensus. This is not regression - it is renewal

In an increasingly polarised media landscape, especially outside India, it has become routine to portray cultural productions such asChhaava - the recent historical about the torture and execution of Maratha leader Chhatrapati Shambhaji Maharaj at the hands of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, as tools of political messaging. Yet to reduce such works to mere propaganda is to misunderstand a far more complex and necessary civilisational shift.

To accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi of stoking divisiveness each time history is revisited is not only simplistic - ...