Spreading fear among the common people of India
Rahul Bajaj’s reference to “the atmosphere of fear in the country” has drawn widespread attention. Newspaper editorials and channel discussions carried its echoes. Failing...
Overseas ‘Friends’ of BJP no ‘friend’ of India
By Ashis Ray
The Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) in the United Kingdom was founded in 1992.
Its members and supporters, many of an RSS orientation,...
Indian-American lawmaker introduces Congressional resolution on Kashmir
Ahead of the introduction of the resolution, Indian-Americans from across the US urged her in various settings against it.
History revisited: Was Veer Savarkar really all that brave?
Savarkar was chargesheeted in the assassination of Gandhi but exonerated, largely because no corroborative evidence of his involvement was furnished.
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