India, Jan. 25 -- PM Modi's big message after unveiling the sacred Buddha Piprahwa relics. Decolonising the Indian mind is very important for building the narrative architecture of the Hindu way of life, and that is precisely what Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing by the building of the Ram Mandir or celebrating the 1,000 years of the destruction of the Somnath temple in January 1026 by a barbaric medieval invader Mahmud of Ghazni. It symbolised the continuity and resilience of the Indian spirit from ruins to resurgence. Their decline in public imagination is not accidental but a symptom of a more profound discomfort with acknowledging Hindu civilisation as intellectually productive. Because most Left-originated historical accounts tr...