Manu Pillai on Sengol: For some, rediscovery is cultural renascence, for others, political Hinduisation of a national symbol

In an interview with The Indian Express, Pillai told Alind Chauhan that the Prime Minister is appealing to a cultural or some might say, a civilisational legitimacy. The placement of the senkol near the Speaker's chair is to give that chair which derived meaning so far via Western parliamentary conventions that we adopted and adapted a more visibly Hindu quality and casing.
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