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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
This story first appeared on e-diasporas.fr
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
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..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...