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December 6, 1992 – Lest we forget

By Javed Anand As I put this column in place, the calendar says it’s December 6. On this very day, 20 years ago, the Babri...

V.D. Savarkar and Gandhi’s murder

By A G Noorani If only Savarkar’s bodyguard and his secretary had testified against him in court, he would have been convicted for Gandhi’s murder On...

Public against Democracy: the case of the Gujarat Pogrom 2002

By Britta Ohm The Creating Publics-Creating Democracies workshop ( see this week's theme) caught my attention immediately because ‘public’ and ‘democracy’ figured as two separate...

While the BJP runs Karnataka they tinge history textbooks with Hindutva...

Class V textbook collapses Indus and Aryan time periods By Bageshree S. It suggests that they co-existed in the same period and space “The plain of the...

Once There Was Hindutva Terror …?

by Subhash Gatade Bomb blasts have taken place near the Delhi High Court, in Bombay, Bangalore etc. Within a few hours of such bomb blasts many...

Milk the faith, worship the cow

The directive principle advocated by the founding fathers was a compromise of sorts between two rival political tendencies and not as forthright as, say,...

Cyber-Hindutva: Hindu nationalism, the diaspora and the Web

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Cyber-Hindutva: Hindu nationalism, the diaspora and the Web

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Hindutva’s war

THE Cover Story (Hindutva's war by other means, February 24) gives a true and vivid picture of the Sangh Parivar's strategies. It reminds one of...

Militarising Minds, Hindutvaising the Nation

By Subhash Gatade 75 Years of Bhonsala Military School subhash gatade ..to bring about military regeneration of the Hindus and to fit Hindu youths for undertaking the...

A decade on from the Gujarat riots, an overwhelming majority of...

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Communal curriculum

By VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN The Sangh Parivar is systematically following its Indianisation reforms in schools run by its affiliates. THE attempts of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS)-led...

War by other means

By VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN In a shift in strategy, the Sangh Parivar resorts to multiple offensives on the social and cultural fronts. THE design of the array...

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