The uses and the abuses of history: While the rest of the world remains plagued by sub-zero temperatures even in March, India is busy constructing the political equivalent of a natural calamity. It has come to notice with the publication of a report that Mahesh Sharma, the Union minister of state for culture and tourism, has set up a 14-member committee of academics and bureaucrats to rewrite the 'true history' of the Indian nation. The committee aims to study the origin and evolution of 'Indian' culture by proving that the events described in ancient Hindu religious scriptures are 'factually true' and that Hindus are descendants of the occupants of the subcontinent in those times.
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