A couple of days back, we celebrated a festival throughout the country — one festival, many names. Tamil New Year, Bengali New Year, Vishu, Bihu in Assam, Vaisakhi in Punjab. On April 14 and 15 — two days, owing to the difference between the solar and lunar calendars — the same festival is celebrated all over the country, and the same importance is given to it.

This definitively proves one thing: that there was a time when Hinduism, or Sanātana Dharma, was practised across the entire Indian subcontinent, Bhārata Varṣa.

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