Hindutva Terror in Karnataka: Malleswaram or Was It Hubli 2.0
By Subhash Gatade
Imagine a bomb blast in a lane near the ruling party's office just before the elections which is immediately attributed to an...
Interpreting fascism, one fascist at a time
By Javed Anand
In the past two decades or so, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the sangh parivar as a whole and its ideological affiliates...
Vivekananda & RSS
Whatever K.N. Panikkar’s view of the sangh parivar, it has played a very important role in spreading Vivekananda’s vision and message (“ >Vivekananda’s legacy of...
No Humans in Modi’s “Development”
By Mukul Dube
Narendra Modi of the RSS is an ambitious man who seems to want to become the prime minister of the country. His...
A Five Point Formula for Riot-Free India
By Asghar Ali Engineer
India’s legacy of communalism and communal violence is here to stay, if one goes by activities of rightwing Hindutva forces and...
The Truth Behind The Ram Janm Bhoomi Liberation
An 8 page pamphlet in Hindi by the Sampradaikta Virodhi Andolan that uncovers the truth behind the Hindutva campaign for the Ram Temple...
Religion in Politics: Impact on Human Rights
By Ram Puniyani,
(Text of Prahallad Mallik Memorial Lecture, January 12, 2012, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa delivered by Ram Puniyani)
We are living in times when the interpretation of events...
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 ideology
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,...