India, March 29 -- In the 1960s, when Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya delivered his four seminal lectures in Bombay, the world was a theatre of rigid binaries. To be "modern" was to choose a side in a Cold War between two Western export products: the atomised individualism of capitalism or the faceless collectivism of socialism. Upadhyaya's introduction of Integral Humanism was not merely a political philosophical idea but also a profound act of intellectual sovereignty. He posited that both dominant systems, despite their ideological warfare, were two sides of the same materialist coin, one focusing on the greed of the individual, the other on the mechanics of the state. Neither, he argued, understood the "whole" human being. Six decades late...