Ramaswami: Satyapal Singh, the Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD), and a former police officer, while speaking at the All India Vaidik Sammelan attacked the theory of evolution – which he foolishly calls Darwinism – asking that it be removed from school and college education. In this, he has been backed by Ram Madhav, the General Secretary of the BJP, who has quoted the Christian Right on creationism -- now called “intelligent design” -- being a substitute for the theory of evolution. They join a growing tribe of BJP leaders and ideologues, who argue that myth – or as YS Rao, the ICHR Chairperson termed as collective memory – must supersede any scientific study of history. It is on the basis of unreason and mythology that the BJP wants to build a modern India.