People are worried. They feel their Idea of India is under threat. Some even think the India envisioned by Nehru and Ambedkar may not last a Modi term. And it’s that word to blame again – Secularism. Ever since the Modi government placed a newspaper ad that displayed the original Preamble and not the altered one that contains the word SECULAR, we have begun demanding answers – without, one might add, asking the right questions. The question we should be asking is not whether the Modi government, by publishing the original copy of the Preamble, has laid bare its intent of doing away with the word SECULAR but, rather, why on earth did Nehru and Ambedkar not allow this word to be added to our Preamble in the first place? And it is the answer to this question that should concern us for it would not only quieten those frothing at the mouth but also illuminate them – that the India of Nehru’s dreams stood SECULAR for a quarter of a century till such time it was demolished by the very same person we now want to hoist upon our shoulders as a champion of Justice, Liberty, and Secularism.