Every year on January 30, one of the top trending hashtags on Twitter is #NathuramGodseZindabad.

Every year on January 30, one of the top trending hashtags on Twitter is #NathuramGodseZindabad. Gandhi’s nationalism was never exclusive, his morality never convenient, and his politics never easily weaponised. To follow Gandhi is not merely to admire him, but to be inconvenienced by him. It is far easier to honour him ceremonially than to engage with him seriously. Publicly venerate Gandhi on the international stage, while turning a blind eye to his name being tarnished back home. He was once the undisputed moral centre of the Indian imagination.