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Soldiers of Saffron, Sonal Shah and Secularism ( JSTOR )

Abstract In our haste to reject the "soldiers of saffron" who live and work outside India, there is a risk that we may be engaging...

Cultural Aggression in The Name of Hindutva

By Praful Bidwai One can only marvel - if that’s the word - at the breathtaking speed with which the sangh parivar has vitiated the...

Communalism and the News Media in India

By Jyoti Punwani  Reporting communal conflict After 20 years of almost continuous communal violence, the basicprinciples of reportage—facts are sacred, comment free; get bothsides of the...

Hindutva Terror – The terror trail from Nanded to Malegaon and beyond

The horrifying spectacle of the Mumbai terror attacks that held us all paralysed for 60 hours, killing more than 187 persons and injuring dozens,...

A running thread of deep saffron

By Christophe Jaffrelot  The people behind the Malegaon terrorist attack fell into three categories  Sangh parivar cadres,army men and old Savarkarites. The first person to...

The Ideological and institutional Incorporation of Dalits Into Hindutva maelstorm

By Subhash Gatade There are many lower orders in the Hindu society whose economic, political and social needs are the same as those of majority...

Sri Ram Sena should be strongly disciplined; its origins thoroughly investigated

By Sahmat SAHMAT  8 Vithalbhai Patel House, Rafi Marg  New Delhi 110 001  Telephones: 23711276/ 23351424  email: sahmat at vsnl.com 27.1.2009 Press Statement We join all right-thinking people in condemning the criminal assault on...

The Rise of Saffronshirts

By Sumanta Banerjee The cycle of killings in Kannur in Kerala can be viewed as a violent symptom of the deep-rooted irreconcilability of two political...

Ascent Of Communalism In Malegaon

By Mustafa Khan Malegaon was wonderfully free from communalism and its tension in the halcyon days after the Independence. Bigotry against the minority Muslim community...

Bomb made at Chaturvedi home (2009)

Times of India

Why ’Sanatan Sanstha’ and ’Hindu Janajagruti Samity’ should be Banned

By Subhash Gatade I The International Film Festival held at Goa in the last week of November 2008 would be remembered for altogether wrong reasons. The...

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