Review: Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: VD Savarkar (Nandakishore Varma)
Savarkar wrote: The Muslims went on slaughtering wholesale the Hindu population. Similarly whenever the Hindus gained an upper hand, they could have retaliated by massacring Muslim population and making the region Muslim-less
Dalit youth beaten, forced to shave mustache in Gujarat
A 20-year-old Dalit resident of Mehsana alleged that he was forced to shave off his moustache by upper caste youths from his village on...
Why CAB-plus-NRC fantasy is BJP’s next Ram Mandir-plus-Article 370 gambit
CAB-plus-NRC is an idea that’s dead-on-arrival. But it’s the BJP’s next Ram Mandir that will be used to polarise and expose the party’s rivals.
The CAB-NRC package is flawed and dangerous
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill-National Register of Citizen package undermines India’s ethos, values, citizen rights, foreign relations, and image in an unprecedented manner
Kashmir users kicked off WhatsApp because of inactivity
Users in Indian-administered Kashmir are being kicked off WhatsApp because of inactivity, the BBC has learned.
It is a side-effect of the four-month internet blackout,...
Protests at Jantar Mantar against citizenship bill, NRC
People called for protest against NRC and CAB because it is against Constitution: Union | Photo from PTI
Several people under different banners gathered at...
RSS and School Education
Excerpted from the Book Titled "RSS School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi" published by Sage Publications
RSS And School Education
The values of...
Supreme Court’s Babri ruling is cornerstone of Hindu Rashtra: Audrey Truschke
The Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgement enshrines Hindu majoritarian wishes as a principle of Indian law. / Kevin Ilango for The Caravan
Maps of the Hindu...
In ‘Bunch Of Thoughts’ Golwalkar misquoted Nehru to push his own Islamophobia
Golwalkar claims that in his introduction to Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s Sanskriti Ke Char Adhyay, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote that foreign invaders such as the Hunas and the Shakas came to India, abandoned their customs and faiths, and started calling themselves Rajput. But even a cursory reading of Nehru’s introduction to Sanskriti shows that Golwalkar is guilty of interpolation
Essentials of Hindutva: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
At the end of the last century, a dangerous new idea was brewing in India – that of Hindu nationalism, of carving India out...
We, Or Our Nationhood Defined: Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar
Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, or M. S. Golwalkar, was the second Sarsanghchalak, or supremo, of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu right-wing cultural organization...
India under threat from the ideology that killed Mahatma Gandhi
The makeover in the image of Nathuram Godse is for everyone to see: from a murderer, a conspirator, terrorist to a ‘martyr’ who supposedly ‘deserves’ a temple in his name everywhere
Hindu Mahasabha rejected the Constitution of India, preferred Manusmriti
'The worst about the new constitution of Bharat is that there is nothing Bharatiya about it. In our constitution there is no mention of the unique constitutional development in ancient Bharat. Manu’s Laws were written long before Lycurgus of Sparta or Solon of Persia. To this day his laws as enunciated in the Manusmriti excite the admiration of the world and elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our constitutional pundits that means nothing'