The imagined landscape is the most powerful landscape in which we live … (A)ll of us, individually and culturally, live in the mappings of our imagined landscape, with its charged centres and dim peripheries, with its mountain tops and its terrae incognitae, with its powerful sentimental and emotional three-dimensionality, with its bordered terrain and the loyalty it inspires, with its holy places, both private and community shared.

Every single mountain and river, big or small, named or unnamed, covering the body of Bharat Mata (India), has the imprint of divinity and history … of our unifying National Consciousness. While on the one hand they have been the traditional abodes of gods and goddesses, they have also stood as shields of protection and security for our people against the foreign aggressors … these centres have acted as bulwarks for preserving the nation's psyche rich with the spirit of cultural and spiritual oneness…. They also wake us up to the urgent and paramount need for putting our Hindu house in order for ensuring the eradication of all such blots of foreign domination and keeping aloft the flag of national honour ever high hereafter.