His criticisms of government policy angered Conservatives, who charged him with betraying the interests of the nation. To these accusations, Bright combatively responded: “How indeed can I, any more than any of you be un-English and anti-national? A recent illustration of this paranoid mindset is the attacks by the sangh parivar on the students’ protest. One is either a deshbhakt, a devoted servant of the nation, or else a deshdrohi, a traitor to the nation. It is she and her comrades who were, and are, the true nationalists.