Despite championing communal, caste and class harmony all his life, Tagore in some of his early work did glorify Maratha, Sikh and Rajput valour against Mughals. These have become favourites of the Hindutva forces.
What a treasure house it was, the Department of Hindi, Centre for Indian Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Namvar Singh taught along with Manager Pandey, side by side with celebrated Hindi poet Kedar Nath Singh and the best Hindi researcher at the moment, Veer Bharat Talwar! Both Namvar Singh