From fractured tolerance to national revival, why India must urgently reset its policies, institutions, and identity

Don’t draw conclusions yet. This isn’t a manifesto. It’s a mirror.

India today finds itself not merely under external threat but under internal strategic siege.

While Pakistan plays its old game of provocation and proxy warfare, China creeps forward with silent aggression. The United States, India’s supposed ally, shows signs of duplicity, prioritizing its own geopolitical chessboard over long-term partnership. Turkey and other OIC nations weaponize religion to corner India diplomatically.

But the bigger threat may lie within. A section of India’s intellectual and political ecosystem continues to oppose, dilute, or outright sabotage national interest, under the guise of secularism, dissent, and liberalism.

What India needs now is not outrage. It needs an overhaul.

But how did India get here?

The answer is, without mincing words, through decades of strategically planned drift, institutional compromise, and a deliberate detachment from its civilizational core, steered by the Congress.

Post-Independence India was shaped by the trauma of Partition and the idealism of its founding thinkers. The result is a state built on cautious neutrality, secular pluralism, and moral posturing, with values noble in intent but strategically hollow when unchecked.

For over seven decades, under prolonged Congress rule, India was steered into a state of passive idealism and defensive politics. What began as a freedom movement morphed into a party that prioritized appeasement over accountability, global image over national interest, and dynasty over discipline.

Minority appeasement was embedded into policy, from Shah Bano to the reluctance to act decisively on Article 370, while civilizational icons were erased from textbooks in favor of glorifying invaders and colonial collaborators. Strategic restraint became the default national response, even in the face of repeated provocations, from the 1962 China debacle to post-26/11 inaction. Meanwhile, Congress-aligned institutions captured the intellectual and policy space, crowding out nationalist narratives and monopolizing public discourse. What was presented as liberalism was often escapism. What was labeled tolerance became strategic paralysis. This long drift left India with weakened institutions, a fractured cultural identity, and generations of youth raised to doubt their roots and suppress their pride in Sanatan values.

That’s why today, India doesn’t just need repair, it needs a reset. And under Prime Minister Modi and the BJP-led government, that reset has already begun in parts. With political courage, policy reform, and a clear resistance to ideological blackmail, the groundwork is being laid for a nation that governs with clarity, defends with strength, and reclaims its direction without apology. This is mission-driven governance in motion, steady, unapologetic, and rooted in resolve.

Here’s what India must now do, in full measure and without delay,

1. Rewrite the political doctrine

The Indian state must move from reactive governance to civilizational mission.

Sedition laws and internal security: These must be modernized and applied with consistency. Softness toward “urban Naxals,” separatists, and those openly hostile to the nation must end. Internal threats must be treated with the same urgency as border incursions. Dissent is democratic, but sabotage must have consequences.
Anti-national propaganda: Digital media laws should explicitly address foreign influence operations, institutional disinformation, and funding pipelines that destabilize public discourse. Politicians, NGOs, and public figures who operate as foreign-funded pressure agents must be publicly exposed and legally prosecuted. Anti-national propaganda and academic subversion must be treated as national security threats, not “activism.”
Religious appeasement vs. equality: Article 25–30 privileges must be debated. Minority institutions enjoy protections denied to Hindu ones. This is not secularism, it is state-enabled imbalance, where Hindu institutions are controlled while others enjoy unregulated freedom. Uniform Civil Code, temple autonomy, and a level playing field must be non-negotiable pillars of future policy.

2. End parallel religious schooling

No modern nation can survive with fractured foundations, and education is the first foundation of nationhood.

Ask yourself: Can a Hindu child enroll in a madrasa? No. Can a Muslim child enroll in a CBSE school? Yes. Why then must India protect a system that is exclusionary, opaque, and often used for ideological conditioning?

Thousands of madrasas across the country currently operate outside formal oversight. India cannot afford to maintain a separate, faith-based schooling system that functions outside the national interest, often with no regulation, no uniform curriculum, and no contribution to civic or national integration. These are not centers of holistic education but promote extremist indoctrination that breeds ideological silos. They are echo chambers, cut off from science, civic duties, gender equality, or even the idea of India as one nation. It certainly is not just an educational issue, but a national security concern.

This is not about discrimination. This is about ending double standards. This is not about targeting any one religion, it’s about ensuring every child in India has access to the same quality, secular, and civic-rooted education, regardless of background.

Sikhs don’t run exclusive state-funded schools for religious instruction. Hindus don’t segregate their children into scripture-only paths. Jews and Christians in India, too, operate within the broader educational system.

Madrasas must be shut down, not reformed. India does not owe protection to any institution that keeps its youth outside the nation-building process.

One nation. One flag. One education system. Anything else is a recipe for long-term fracture.

3. Make national service a rite of passage

A nation survives on the back of those who defend it. But where is our cultural pride in soldiering?

India must build a civil-military culture, making military service aspirational, through policy, media, and education.

Mandatory national service: India must introduce 2–3 years of compulsory national service for citizens aged 17–21, covering defense, disaster response, infrastructure, or civic duties. This isn’t about militarization. It’s about building discipline, unity, and civic identity in a generation often adrift in digital echo chambers.
Incentivize armed forces careers: To attract the best and brightest, India must improve the appeal of military careers, through competitive pay, post-service career pathways, and a public narrative that celebrates soldiers not just as defenders, but as future leaders.
Narrative reset: Mainstream entertainment and education must shift from glorifying anti-heroes or imported ideologies to celebrating valor rooted in our civilizational memory. Indian children should grow up admiring Shivaji, Maharana Pratap, Lachit Borphukan, Subhas Chandra Bose, figures of courage, strategy, and sacrifice, not just fictional icons detached from national purpose.

Countries like Israel and South Korea already do this, and their societies reflect greater resilience and unity. In India’s case, it will also serve as an antidote to the anti-national ideologies and content ecosystems poisoning young minds.

4. Reclaim the cultural narrative

India is not a post-colonial republic alone. It is a civilizational state. However, decades of policy and education have erased this truth from mainstream discourse.

Education reforms: History textbooks must stop erasing India’s civilizational past. Hindu thought, science, logic, and philosophy must be reintroduced, not as dogma, but as foundational knowledge. Sanskrit should be offered across curricula, not tucked away as optional.
Restoring autonomy to Hindu institutions: Unlike churches and mosques, which are independently managed by their respective communities, thousands of Hindu temples across India , especially in southern states, are still controlled by state governments through endowment boards. This includes oversight of temple finances, festivals, and even priest appointments. At the same time, several state and central schemes continue to fund or subsidize pilgrimages of other faiths, such as Haj or Jerusalem trips. This imbalance isn’t about exclusion , it’s about fairness. Hindu temple revenues, meant for spiritual and community development, are often redirected for secular purposes. Reforming this system and returning control to the Hindu community is essential, not to privilege one group, but to uphold religious parity and protect the cultural soul of India’s majority faith.
Global Hindu renaissance: Just as China pushes Confucian Institutes and Islamic nations export their worldview, India must invest in global promotion of dharmic values, through yoga, Ayurveda, spiritual tourism, and Vedantic studies.

5. Regulate social media

In a digital-first India, social media has become more than a communication tool, it is now the primary battleground for ideology, identity, and influence. But unlike our borders or airwaves, this space remains largely unregulated, easily exploited by agenda-driven creators, foreign actors, and misinformation ecosystems.

Free speech is vital. But free speech cannot be all-encompassing when it endangers national unity, distorts facts, or undermines democratic institutions. The problem isn’t disagreement. It’s asymmetry and unaccountability.

Creators like Dhruv Rathee, with massive followings, foreign platforms, and monetized political content, routinely shape narratives that are deeply critical of Indian institutions, Hindutva, the armed forces, or national security policies. This content reaches millions, often without counterbalance, editorial review, or disclosure of funding, affiliations, or location.

The Jyoti Malhotra case, where a popular YouTuber was caught spying for Pakistan’s ISI, is just the tip of the iceberg. Dubious figures rise through fake engagement and paid followers to push toxic, divisive narratives, many laced with foreign intent.

India urgently needs a digital oversight framework that:

Enforce mandatory disclosure of creator location, affiliations, and funding for political content
Classify large social channels as media entities, subject to similar transparency norms
Build homegrown algorithms and incentive structures that promote responsible, pro-national discourse
Create an independent digital ethics board for public complaints and grievance redressal

This is not censorship. This is digital self-defense. If the government can regulate TV, print, OTT, and news portals, it can, and must, regulate high-impact social media creators who shape young minds at scale.

6. Adopt a doctrine of calibrated retaliation

India must shed its post-colonial anxiety and moral high-ground obsession. The world doesn’t respect softness. It responds to strength.

Every act of terror, proxy war, or diplomatic insult must carry a cost. India must adopt a doctrine of calibrated retaliation, overt or covert. This includes:

Economic penalties for hostile nations
Diplomatic shaming and isolation
Cyber and information warfare readiness
Covert operations when required

The time to “show restraint” is over. They are acts of national assertion, measured, legal, and necessary. Going forward, India must embed this mindset into a formal doctrine:

Terror attacks = Kinetic and financial responses
Diplomatic slights = Visa and trade leverage
Cyber-attacks = Targeted counter-cyber ops
Propaganda or media interference = Information warfare and regulatory tightening

This is about front-foot defense, where the message is clear: India does not escalate without reason, but it will never absorb without response.

A Hindu Rashtra cannot survive on dharma alone. It must be backed by dand (deterrence), niti (policy), and sankalp (will).

Retaliation is not rage. It’s rational statecraft.

Conclusion: Only a Hindu Rashtra can hold this nation together

India’s greatest threat today is not just external aggression, it is internal erosion. A distracted generation, disconnected from its roots. Institutions too afraid to defend the civilization they were born from. A political class still pandering to appeasement models, while hostile forces chip away from all directions.

Pakistan provokes. China threatens. The West manipulates. The Left corrodes. And through it all, a billion people scroll, unaware of what’s being lost.

We are not short on numbers. We are short on narrative. A civilization that once taught the world how to think is now afraid to define itself.

India won’t fall in a dramatic war. If it ever will, it will dissolve under a thousand cuts: identity confusion, institutional cowardice, and cultural amnesia.

It is time to say it without hesitation: India must become a Hindu Rashtra.

Not a theocracy. Not a state of exclusion. But a civilizational nation, firmly rooted in Sanatan values, where every minority can live and thrive, as they always have under Indic traditions, aligned with the soul of the nation.

If there can be Islamic republics, Christian nations, and countries explicitly built on tribal or racial identity, why is a Hindu Rashtra considered so radical?

This is not about rhetoric. This is about survival.

What we feed our children today, through our textbooks, our temples, our movies, our heroes, our governance, will decide whether India remains a living civilization, or becomes a land of people who forgot who they were. Because if we continue to outsource our identity, hesitate to re-anchor our youth, or fear the world’s opinion of our self-definition, India may still exist on a map, but not in spirit.

Because if we don’t define India now, someone else will.

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