India, Jan. 15 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, last Sunday (January 11), invoked the history of the Somnath Temple, stating that "flag hoisting at Somnath Mahadev Mandir shows the power of India and its capabilities to the entire world". He added that, in the cycle of time, "those fundamentalist invaders are now reduced to pages of history, but the Somnath Temple still stands tall".

Nearly two months ago, when Prime Minister Modi resolved to free India completely from the Macaulayite mindset, I argued in this very column (December 4) that what Modi said was correct but incomplete. India's entrenched intellectual paralysis is not merely the legacy of Thomas Macaulay; it is equally the product of Karl Marx's ideological descendants who do...