Narendra Modi seems to have been reading his Orwell.
You can imagine the Hindu Nationalist Indian Prime Minister underlining the slogan from Nineteen Eighty-Four ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’ – and nodding in agreement.
Thus the recent announcement that Indian history textbooks, under the direction of the government, have been reissued with some alarming cuts.
Previously, the editorialising had focused on softening the role of Hindu extremists in the assassination of Gandhi. It played down
