Introduction: Real crime of these eminences does not lie in the loss they have inflicted in terms of money. It lies in the condition to which they have reduced institutions. It lies in their dereliction - because of which projects that were important for our country, have languished. It lies even more in the use to which they have put those institutions. But the worst of it is that they have used their control of these institutions to pervert public discourse and thereby derail public policy. They have made India out to have been an empty land filled by successive invaders. They have made present day India and Hinduism, even more so, out to be a zoo- an agglomeration of assorted disparate specimens. They have belittled our ancient culture and exaggerated syncretistic elements which survived and made them out to have been an entire 'culture', the 'composite culture' as they call it. And all the while, they have taken care to hide the central facts about these com...