Articles with tag: Hindutava
Rise of Hindu Right Wing Ideology
Hussain Abbas Aug 16, 2007 interacts: 138Today, when a Hindu shouts an obscenity at Pakistan the Indian Muslim has to shout two to show their patriotism towards India.
A Drunken RSS Man in Jassema
Harish Nambiar Sep 20, 2005 interacts: 32The feelings slowly churning in his head, the various ideas randomly laid out on the table, all coalesced into a look of deep pain. His eyes were speckled in fierce glints of pain and alarm. It was as if he was actually living with the situation of his me
See RSS, Think Al Queda!
Subhash Gatade Aug 24, 2005 interacts: 98Within a span of a few months this is the third time in a row that the Parivar and its men have received rebukes either at the hands of the US establishment itself or through those institutions/peoples who are working closely with it.
Ayodhya: The Aftermath of the Terrorist Attack
Subhash Gatade Aug 16, 2005 interacts: 89Tired of emotive issues which affect their own lives and feeling cheated at the hands of these self-proclaimed upholders of Hindutva, people just did not care when the saffron brigade gave a call for agitation over insult to ‘Hindu identity.’
Unbinding India
Farzana Versey Mar 16, 2004 interacts: 64“The heroes here are not the Gandhis and Nehrus but the banias…Hindutva is such an impoverished image of our past. Spirituality is only one strand. There is medicine, astronomy, mathematics.”
Inventing India—Again and Again
Revathy Gopal Mar 1, 2004 interacts: 34If one were a spin-doctor in the present rancorous climate of Indian politics, dealing in Resurgent Religion, how would one go about manufacturing a mythology that would win votes?
Learning in Saffron: RSS Schools Orissa
Angana Chatterji Nov 13, 2003 interacts: 123At the intersections of globalisation and hyper nationalism, Hindutva intervenes, unravelling the fragile fabric of democracy.
Orissa: A Gujarat in the making
Angana Chatterji Nov 4, 2003 interacts: 139With little resistance to its aggressive onslaught, the sangh parivar looks well set to meet its 2006 deadline for reshaping Orissa into the next ’laboratory for Hindutva’.
Myths and Dreams: Hindutva Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora
Angana Chatterji Aug 26, 2003 interacts: 175In the United States, the fervour of long distance Hindutva nationalism is intense. Dangerous stories circulate. Muslims are polygamous terrorists whose deliberate identification and massacre in Gujarat is justifiable, even necessary. The campaign for tri
Hey Ram, What Have You Done to My Religion?
Dost Mittar Jul 21, 2003 interacts: 142The way I saw it, it all started with Ram. Back in the 1980s, when the official Doordarshan TV channel was the only game in town, it telecast an immensely popular serial on Ramayan. The serial was so popular that all businesses and social visits came to a
