Hindu Rashtra

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.

How coastal Karnataka was saffronised; Part 3: Hindu groups organise, Hindu Rashtra is defined, Savarkar makes his mark

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

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