SECULARISM AND TIME gets scandalized because the right wing politics have also used the pre-modern. First, this use cannot be sustained but can easily be exposed, as hindutva is quite hostile to the pre-modern and in fact, closely aligns itself with the modern. This will be clear even if one cursorily reads the writings of V.D. Savarkar, the ideologue of hindutva. Further, even if hindutva is politicizing the pre-modern social realities, this should not make one to drop pre-modern, on the other hand, we must explicate the differences between the pre-modern and hindutva. Instead, if we merely and indirectly endorse this alignment, this is not only politically dangerous but theoretically naive. Should we drop feminism because the hindutva is either appropriating or likely to appropriate the women's question?