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Bharat is already a Hindu Rashtra: RSS' Dattatreya Hosabale
Explaining his statement, Dattatreya Hosabale said Nation and State are two different things. While a nation is a "cultural concept", State is that which is established by the Constitution
Right Word | Why doesn’t RSS consider itself to be a right-wing organisation?
It is important to have a Bharatiya perspective which is holistic and not confined to categorisations and binaries. This would help one understand why RSS volunteers are nationalists, and why Bharat is considered to be a Hindu Rashtra by the RSS
Right Word | RSS’ concept of ‘Hindu Rashtra’: Where do minorities stand in it?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Shaheen Bagh protest challenges BJP govt’s brand of populism, is generative of new vision of democracy
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
What it means to be queer under a regime bent on remaking India on its own ideological terms
Recently one of my pictures was trolled by right-wing people on social media. These responses display that their frameworks to look at the world is disrupted by a visibly queer body. An important lens to look at the world for them is through marriage, which becomes the foundational principle of assigning gendered personhood. The comments were brutally transphobic and queerphobic. Throughout, one thread of reference remained the same, 'Who will marry this and how?'
Congress leader files complaint against RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat over '130 crore Indians are Hindus' remark
Mohan Bhagwat had at a public meeting on 25 December, said irrespective of religion and culture, people who have nationalistic spirit and respect the culture of Bharat and its heritage are Hindus and RSS considers the 130 crore people of the country as Hindus.
Row over RSS chief’s remarks overblown, the institution is only seeking to define Hindutva as pluralistic
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat’s recent comments, that the organisation regards the entire 130 crore population of India as members of “Hindu society”, has come at a time when the country is witnessing large-scale protests over a legislation that critics say is ‘anti-Muslim’, ‘divisive’ and part of BJP’s ‘majoritarian project’.
Partition-era debate on who is Indian has been reopened by the citizenship bill, with grave consequences
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is, at its heart, a debate waged around the rights of ignored Partition refugees, but with far wider implications for what it meant to be Indian
National interest is not being served by current politics of NRC and citizenship; narrow political interests are
The Citizenship Amendment Bill is listed for passing in the forthcoming session of Parliament. As everyone probably knows by now, it claims to give citizenship on relatively easy terms to non-Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The Bill has been especially contentious in Northeast India, also the location of the first National Register of Citizens exercise, where 19 lakh people in Assam have been excluded from the list, leaving them in limbo.
BSP says RSS' vision of India contradictory to that of BR Ambedkar, cites lynchings, atrocities against Dalits
'RSS vision has been spelled out by MS Golwalkar, he mentions that RSS wants to build India as Hindu Rashtra', he said
'Muslims in India are the happiest': Mohan Bhagwat says minorities, historically persecuted faiths thrive in India due to 'Hindu culture'
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) supremo Mohan Bhagwat said that people of other faiths have sought refuge in India due to the 'Hindu culture'.
Being Muslim in New India is an inherently existential struggle, subsumed as community is under an emergent Hindu nation
With Narendra Modi's phenomenal victory in the 2019 elections, theories, everyday conversations, stories and celebrations speak of a significant notion: the 'Hinduisation' of society.
LK Advani led BJP's Hindu nationalism movement in 80s, 90s; espousing diversity today won't erase his past
LK Advani was the driving force behind the BJP's Indian nationalism and Hindutva concepts. Today, when he reminds the party about the BJP's 'respect' for 'diversity' and 'freedom of choice', does he expect them — or us — to believe him?