That such assertion, crudely and simplistically dubbed as ‘Hindu nationalism’, is, in fact, an Indic civilisational and decolonial reawakening, somehow never occurs to those who crinkle their noses at it. Simply put, it is the expression of the decolonial urge of the silenced and long-silent native to reclaim and re-exist. When this expression is pejoratively and phobically caricatured as ‘Hindu nationalism’, the only logical inference that can be drawn is that every other culture and society has the right to exercise the decolonial option, except Bharat.
