Hindu Rashtra
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Right Word | RSS’ concept of ‘Hindu Rashtra’: Where do minorities stand in it?
Arun Anand •RSS has always believed that compartmentalising our society on the basis of our way of worship is the root cause of ‘Muslim appeasement’ and ‘vote-bank politics’, which has done great harm to society
Right Word | Mohan Bhagwat’s Vijayadashami address tells us why Bharat needs to be an unapologetic Hindu Rashtra
Arun Anand •This year, the sixth Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, Dr Mohan Bhagwat, has once again outlined the all-inclusive worldview of the RSS that goes beyond the headlines and brings to the fore several significant civilisational issues
Right Word | How and why the relationship between RSS and BJP has worked so well
Arun Anand •While the RSS is trying to bring this transformation through more than 60,000 shakhas, more than three-dozen social organisations run by its volunteers and two lakh welfare projects on the ground, the Modi government is utilising the resources available with the ‘state’ to do this
Closet clerics of media? A TV show serves a new template of Hinduphobia
Abhijit Majumder •Islamists are getting increasingly desperate because a new India has stalled their dark march
We pledge and give commitment to make India a Hindu Rashtra: Haryana BJP MLA
•A slogan in the favour of a Hindu Rashtra was raised and Ambala City MLA Aseem Goel was seen raising both his hands in support in a video along with others
Hindus must uphold unequal secularism via continued concessions while Muslims get the licence to use violence as leverage
Sreemoy Talukdar •Regardless of their actions, Muslims have a monopoly on victimhood while Hindus are the perpetual perpetrators because their very existence is provocative
How Hindutva is the Hinduism that resists
Aabhas Maldahiyar •Things evolve with time and so has ‘Hindutva’. Once it was the only saviour of others, but the condition demanded it to add a new feature: Resist
Our Hindu Rashtra review: In new book, Aakar Patel charts India's descent into a majoritarian nation
Samrat •Comparing India’s case to Pakistan’s, it becomes clear that the mainstreaming of religious politics is having the same kind of effect here that Pakistan has already undergone.
How coastal Karnataka was saffronised; Part 3: Hindu groups organise, Hindu Rashtra is defined, Savarkar makes his mark
Greeshma Kuthar •The year 1915 is significant in Indian political history because it was then that the word 'Hindu' was used and accepted as a political term to define those who were not Muslim, Christian, Jain, Sikh or Buddhist. Until the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha was formed, the Arya Samajis, for instance, referred to themselves as 'Aryans', the followers of the ancient Vedic faith.
Shaheen Bagh protest challenges BJP govt’s brand of populism, is generative of new vision of democracy
Irfan Ahmad •Amid ongoing anti-CAA, NRC protests, Shaheen Bagh sit-in symbolises an alternative idea of democracy enmeshed in suffering, pain, mutual care, and the acknowledgement of vulnerability and human finitude