What is the biggest achievement of the Modi government so far? It’s the government’s ambitious project to foster the civilizational and cultural resurgence of Bharat. Poverty alleviation, job creation, economic growth, sustainable development, infrastructure development, etc., all are natural by-products of that profound change that paves the way for a nation to take pride in its national identity and civilizational ethos.
The Breaking Bharat forces have always tried to prevent Bharatiyas from having a consolidated national identity. Bharat is not a single nation but a medley of different cultures, they say. Bharat cannot be treated as a nation- state in the fashion of European countries, they insinuate. The divisive forces have always used the diversity and tolerance of Bharatiya culture and civilization against its own people. Thus, brainwashing generations into having a confused sense of national identity and eventually dissociating them from the very notion of nationhood.
Rajiv Malhotra has talked about this in detail in his seminal book Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines. The book provides a historical overview of the role played by the missionary ecosystem in breaking Bharat on the lines of a manufactured racial identity in the form of the Arya Migration Theory (AMT) and the Aryan-Dravidian divide. Despite the fact that the Arya Migration Theory has been discredited through scientific evidence, the leftist and missionary ecosystem continues to manufacture racial and ethnic faultlines within the Hindu society using this conspiracy theory.
In 21st-century Bharat, the task of dividing Bharat has been taken up by the woke leftist forces hyperactive within the cultural machinery and the educational ecosystem of Bharat. We have discussed in many previous articles how humanities and social sciences education in Bharat is being misused by vested interests to promote divisive ideologies.
During the past 10 years it’s been in power, the prime focus of the Modi government has been the undoing of this damage that decades of the Congress and communist ecosystem have landed Bharat and Bharatiyas into.
The Modi government has walked this tightrope firmly through measures like doing away with many archaic rules and laws to bring in new ones, more in sync with the cultural and civilizational ethos of Bharat and the changing realities of a resurgent Bharat – the New Education Policy 2020, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Sakshya, Bharatiya Naagrik Suraksha Sanhita, etc. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita replaced the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The Bharatiya Sakshya replaced the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, and the Bharatiya Naagrik Suraksha Sanhita replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure, of 1898.
The renaming of many Bharatiya cities keeping in mind the civilizational and cultural ethos of Bharat has also been an important achievement of the Modi government. In most cases, the Vedic names of these cities have been restored, scrapping the names that had been thrust onto them by invaders. Thus, Allahabad became Prayagraj, Gurgaon became Gurugram, etc. Many other name changes in cities across the country have been approved. The formal name of Varanasi, for example, is still Varanasi, but it’s increasingly referred to by its Vedic name Kashi. The government also promotes the city as Kashi. Thus, its Vedic name is gaining more prominence.
Similarly, the names of many prominent towns, streets, airports, etc. have been changed by the Modi government in sync with its larger project of revamping the country’s ancient civilizational and cultural ethos. The woke ecosystem doesn’t like these changes, thus the woke media routinely reports such happenings as some sort of an onslaught on the rights of minorities, the “Hindu majoritarian government” of Bharat erasing the heritage of Muslims, and all that. But the people of Bharat can see through the hollow and baseless criticism. For a nation that spent decades under the shadows of invasions and colonialism, the promise of a civilizational and cultural resurgence holds far more promise than empty leftist jumlas of guaranteeing government jobs.
Political systems and thought schools like Marxism and communism reduce people to their most foundational of material needs – as long as people get basic food, shelter, clothing, etc. they would lie in their own quiet corners and not make noise. In other words, the oligarchs can go on accumulating all their wealth while the masses will be happy with getting two square meals a day and a roof over their heads.
Political ideologies like communism pretend to be pro-people but in reality, these are anti-people, treating them as some kind of doormats in the communist dictator’s supreme quest for political and economic power. That’s why communists do not get it that people could be happy in a democracy. They don’t understand that people don’t want roti, kapda, and makaan (food, clothing, and shelter) as some kind of favor thrown on to them. They want equal opportunities for development, the creation of conditions that enable them to excel in life as much as they would like to, and most importantly, people want a cohesive sense of national and cultural identity.
It’s precisely why the Modi government has been in power for 10 years consecutively and the Congress is reduced to shadows of its former glory. The socialist style promises of securing government jobs and freebies don’t work anymore. Here is a nation that wants development with a strong sense of national identity and self-respect. By embarking on a project involving the cultural and civilizational resurgence of Bharat on a large scale, the BJP has given people more than a glimpse of the model of development rooted in one’s civilizational ethos and cultural paradigm.
The construction of the new Sansad Bhavan, the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, and revamping of ancient temple towns, and Bharatiyas taking pride in visiting temples and Hindu monuments – these are milestones in the modern history of Bharat. Decades later, this should be in the textbooks that how a country like Bharat emerged strong and regained its ancient cultural identity, steering through the debris of Islamic invasions and British colonialism.
Barely 15 years back, the tourists coming to Bharat would do a round of the Delhi – Jaipur-Agra circuit and go back. They would visit the Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Humayun’s Tomb, etc. It’s beyond shameful that for decades after independence, Bharat branded itself as an international tourist destination of monuments built by Islamic invaders. There wasn’t a single monument representing Bharat’s ancient Vedic heritage on that list. Naturally, foreigners visiting Bharat would have raved about Bharat’s Islamic heritage. In other words, there was nothing Bharatiya about the image of Bharat, at least in the international context.
The Modi government has radically transformed the image of Bharat. Now, the same foreign tourists would be visiting Ayodhya, Mathura, and Kashi, instead of just doing the Delhi-Agra-Jaipur circuit. With the construction of the Ram temple, for the first time, Hindu heritage, history, and culture, are becoming subjects of discussion on international platforms. The government has created a conducive environment for research on Indic culture and civilization. It’s the first time that Hindu issues are being discussed openly and people have started acknowledging the existence of Hinduphobia.
Despite the vast amount of anti-Bharat propaganda being constantly churned by global leftists, the international image of Bharat has been radically transformed. From a country smitten by everything English and western, we have evolved as a nation comfortable with our own identity, and culture, and more assertive and articulate in our criticism of the western hegemony. Our leaders don’t shy away from speaking in Hindi at international events and meetings, and Bharat doesn’t shy away from acknowledging its Hindu heritage and roots globally. All this has become possible because of the Modi government’s ambitious project for fostering the civilizational and cultural resurgence of Bharat.
It would be perhaps apt to end this article with a couple of lines fPM Modi himself. In a recent interview with Times Now Navbharat, he was asked a question about the sense of pride that Bharatiys felt in their identity since he became the Prime Minister.
“International Yoga Divas, International Solar Alliance, I said One Earth, One Family, One Future then I said One Sun, One World, One Grid… When our Chandrayaan landed, I named the point ‘Shiv Shakti’. Now if some people have issue with the Hindu name, then it is their obligation. What can be above Shiv Shakti? I have no doubt or embarrassment, I am proud of it. I live with pride. I want the world to laud India and our culture. I have taken birth with this mission only. We brought back more than 300 stolen artefacts; this could have been done before but we did it. Some child of one of your journalist colleagues is studying abroad, they said that in the university they say that PM Modi has made India ‘cool’. They are walking inside the university with pride”, said PM Modi.
