New Delhi, 05 January (H.S.): Prime Minister Narendra Modi extolled India's indomitable cultural and spiritual heritage Monday via X, crediting its survival through countless attacks across millennia to the unbreakable collective resolve of its citizens who vigilantly preserved the civilizational legacy amid relentless onslaughts.

Full Tweet (Hindi with English Translation):हमारी महान संस्कृति और आध्यात्मिक विरासत अनगिनत हमलों की भी साक्षी रही है। यह देशवासियों की सामूहिक शक्ति ही है, जिसने हमारी सांस्कृतिक धरोहर को हमेशा अक्षुण्ण रखा है।वनानि दहतो वह्नेः सखा भवति मारुतः। स एव दीपनाशाय कृशे कस्यास्ति सौहृदम् ॥(Our great culture and spiritual heritage have witnessed countless attacks. It is the collective power of countrymen that has always kept our cultural legacy intact.)

Literal Translation: When forest fires blaze, wind allies with flames. Yet that same wind snuffs the lamp. Who befriends the frail?

Three-Layer Brilliance:

Nature's Hypocrisy: Wind empowers destruction (forests) but undermines vulnerability (lamp)—opportunistic alliances.

Human Litmus: True solidarity embraces weakness; fair-weather friends abandon the struggling.

Civilizational Mirror: Invaders exploited divisions, yet India's people's unity—through guru traditions, temple economies, relic veneration—defied annihilation.

Strategic Resonance

Timed hours before Modi's Piprahwa Relics exhibition inauguration (10 AM, National Museum), the Subhashitam weaves seamlessly:

Relics as Proof: Buddha's śarīras symbolize collective preservation across Islamic iconoclasm, colonial looting

Contemporary Echo: Amid Venezuela tensions, global protests, economic headwinds—unity as panacea

Governance Mantra: Strength via societal cohesion vs. top-down fiat

Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar