“Somanatha Temple Restoration: How Nehruvian Secularism Failed to Stop Sardar Patel’s Sacred Vow”, The Dharma Dispatch, May 15, 2026

“Past Imperfect

THE GRAND Somanath Amrit Mahotsav concluded four days ago when Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the Kumbhabhisheka marking the auspicious close to the 75th anniversary of its Punarutthana (restoration).

The restoration of Somanatha is a rare instance in which providence, history, piety and human effort worked in tandem to heal a civilisational wound thereby reclaiming the pride of Hindus in the transcendental spiritual impulse that created the Somanath Temple.

When Narendra Modi flagged off the Somnath Swabhiman Parv in January, it was an unabashed declaration of the aforementioned truth. The kernel of this declaration also contained another basic historical truth: that after an entire millennium, the ideology that impelled Mahmud of Ghazni to destroy Somanath, keeps on facing repeated failures only in Bharatavarsha. Mahmud destroyed the building, not the spirit of the people who built, venerated and sustained it…….”

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