Lalit Shastri

The Hindustan Times’ recent piece quoting Sam Dalrymple—“The Northeast was probably the most affected by Partition“—is not merely an exploration of Partition’s horrors. It is a textbook example of how insidious leftist propaganda cloaks itself in pseudo-intellectualism to erode the civilizational idea of Bharatvarsha.

What should have been a nuanced discussion on historical trauma has instead become a tool to propagate a dangerous falsehood: that Bharat is a construct born of colonial machinations, rather than the living embodiment of millennia of shared culture, dharma, and history.

Mixing the British Empire with the concept of Bharat is a diabolic move that distorts our civilizational truth. – Lalit Shastri

Bharat: A Timeless Civilization, Not a Colonial Cartography

The idea of Bharatvarsha predates the British Empire, the Mughals, and every other foreign invader by thousands of years. It is rooted in the spiritual, cultural, and philosophical unity that has bound this land from the Himalayas to the seas. To conflate this with the artificial boundaries imposed by the British Raj is not just historically inaccurate—it is an intellectual fraud of the highest order.

By layering the Partition narrative with selective regional victimhood and weaving it into broader claims about the British Empire and Bharat, the article subtly advances a diabolic agenda: to dismantle the idea of Bharat as a civilizational whole.

The editors who publish such pieces either do not understand the damage they enable, or they are complicit in the larger game of dismantling Bharat.

Idiocy or Ideology? The Role of Editors in Spreading Distortion

Let’s not mince words. The publication of such distorted views points to one of two things: either the editors are clueless about the deep civilizational insult being committed, or they are willing accomplices in pushing a narrative designed to weaken Bharat’s identity. Their failure—whether of intellect or intent—contributes to the erosion of national consciousness.

Call to Action: Expose and Reject the Propaganda

It is time for every Indian conscious of Bharat’s true identity to call out these lies and resist this intellectual subversion. Bharat is not a colonial remnant or a British relic. Bharat is a civilizational truth—eternal, sacred, and indestructible. No amount of leftist sophistry can erase what history, culture, and dharma have forged over millennia.