India, Sept. 7 -- Mohan Bhagwat has completed what was billed as a historic three-nation international outreach of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. America, Canada, and Britain were supposed to hear the RSS chief explain India, Hinduism, pluralism, and the great civilisational wisdom of Vaudhaiva Kutumbakam and lap it up without any questions. Apparently, according to the saffron totters, the world was awaiting enlightenment from Nagpur. It is doubtful that it happened.

Bhagwat's sermonising on the DNA of Bharat being imbued with the idea of unity in diversity, with diversity being respected, accepted, and protected, with the world being one family, and with the casual expulsion of anti-Muslims from the Hindu fold, might have been lovel...