Hindu Nationalism

How to survive a war of lies: Understanding anti-Hindu communication, media and propaganda

When a whole environment of lies exists across media, academic, NGO and governmental platforms, the task of anyone trying to speak the truth and stand for the truth becomes even harder

Amid UK riots, lessons for Hindus on propaganda and genocide from ‘The US and the Holocaust’

Organised lies cannot be fought by disorganised truths that are not backed by investment and guided by expertise. That is the bottom line Hindus have to deal with now or never

Right Word | ‘Hindu nationalism’ and the emergence of ‘Bharatiya’ model of development

If one looks at it from the Bharatiya perspective, what is important is ‘dharma’ and its true manifestation through individual and collective actions. You may call the collective action ‘culture’ while the individual action is ‘faith’.

Luxury lies: The real meaning of news these days

The phrase ‘luxury beliefs’ are being used in some American circles to describe the worldview of this elite segment. ‘Luxury lies’ is a more appropriate term to describe what NYT delivers with its India stories though

Hindutva is the assertion of Hinduism’s political identity, and its rise is an inevitable force of history

The Congress's motivation to separate the two concepts lies in the political ascendancy of the BJP that has, by Rahul Gandhi’s own admission, overshadowed India's Grand Old Party

Why we hunt witches: India’s illiberal impulses may not prove as durable as some fear

That angry Indian debates involve young people pitted against the values of their parents’ generation suggests an upheaval in values lies ahead

How coastal Karnataka was saffronised: The story of rise and rise of Hindu nationalism in syncretic South Kanara

For more than three decades now, South Kanara has gained a reputation as the Sangh Parivar's laboratory. People unfamiliar with coastal Karnataka believe it is responsible for the growth of radical right-wing organisations like Hindu Yuva Sene, Bajrang Dal and Ram Sene, which propagate a form of divisive, hate-fuelled politics, using love jihad and gauraksha as instruments of coercion.

Actor Payal Rohatgi’s outburst against Safoora Zargar typifies right wing obsession with Muslim sexuality

The Hindu right-wing discourse around the sexuality and sex lives of Muslim men and women has acquired a particular tone and tenor

India drops two places on global press freedom index, ranked 142nd out of 180 nations; RSF cites pressure to toe 'Hindu nationalist government's line'

Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) attributed India's decline on the World Press Freedom Index 2020 to 'pressure on the media to toe the Hindu nationalist government's line'

The unbearable incandescence of India’s millenarian impulse — and the path that led here

Modern India has been awash with millenarian ideological projects — from the Left rising in West Bengal of 1970-1972 that ended with the slaughter of 5,000 young people or more by the State and criminal militia; the ethnic-religious carnage let loose from the late-1980s by jihadists in Kashmir or Khalistanis in Punjab.