Rajiv Malhotra, guru of "Yankee Hindutva" (thanks, Gita Ramaswamy) and "philosopher-in-chief of Internet Hindutva", now makes the cross-planet corporeal commute from the milk-and-honey comforts of New Jersey, USA, to the air-polluted South Delhi in his new role as honorary visiting professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

This continues the BJP government's efforts, since appointing Jagadeesh Kumar as vice-chancellor, to "tukde-tukde" the bastion of free thinking and left-wingism in academia. Malhotra claims to be an Indologist but does not know Sanskrit. Also, he has never been able to fend off charges of plagiarism ("sanskrit does not use quotes" is one of his feeble defences). The true gauge of Malhotraji's scholarship comes from eminent philosopher Martha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago: she described him as highly aggressive and a person who, instead of discussing the substance of a particular book, makes unbalanced attacks on its alleged mistakes. Naturally, he is a hero to the 'incel' Hindutva sheep the world over.