The Kerala government is under fire for propagating communism through school textbooks. The government finds itself in a spot because it can't withdraw the books right at the onset of the current academic session. Leftist historians have long been accused of not only distorting facts in textbooks but Indian history itself. Their power reached its zenith under a sympathetic socialist prime minister, Indira Gandhi. In an effort to prove their secular credentials, these intellectuals wove history like an intricate Persian carpet and brushed controversies and carnages under it. One look at the history textbooks convinces us that this country is a mosaic of different cultures. But this mosaic was built over several bloody conflicts. Avoiding any reference to the repercussions of these conflicts is as good as propagating falsehood. We needn't apologise for them today like many western nations do, but we can at least acknowledge them. Indian history's swing towards the reds created a vertical split in one of the renowned universities in the country. If the school of arts turned left, the school of sciences leaned towards the right. Indian history was torn apart between red historians and right-wing archeologist. An event that occurred in Israel a few years ago, puts history in the right perspective. Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated after signing a landmark peace deal with the late PLO chief Yasser Arafat. When mourners at his funeral were asked if Rabin could be considered the father of modern Israel, they refused and said their land had a long history. Unfortunately, an older senile living civilisation suffering from partial amnesia can't look beyond the past 200 years. State patronage to limited ideologies can help pass off personal perceptions as irrefutable facts of a nation's heritage. Governments should stop sponsoring history and historians. Otherwise, history is likely to change course every five years.