India: Hindu Far Right Organisations Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal Oppose Concert by Pakistani Singer - set fire to posters in Ahmedabad

Indian Express

VHP members stir against Pak singer’s concert, detained
Express News Service : Ahmedabad, Thu Nov 21 2013

Ten members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal, who were protesting against Pakistani pop singer Atif Aslam's concert scheduled on November 23 in Ahmedabad, were detained on Wednesday. The Saffron activists torched posters of the the singer to protest against the

India - Karnataka: VHP, Bajrang Dal oppose anti-superstition Bill

The Hindu,
Mangalore, November 18, 2013

VHP, Bajrang Dal oppose anti-superstition Bill

Special Correspondent

Expressing fear that the proposed anti-superstition Bill would endanger Hindu traditions, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal have said they would launch a series of protests and a legal struggle against the Bill.

A meeting of astrologers, temple administrators, and

A Secular Offensive ? | Mukul Dube

5 November,

by Mukul Dube

That there are dozens of Parishads and Dals and Senas and Samitis and Kendras, all working towards a “Hindu Rashtra” or “Akhanda Bharat”, shows how successful the RSS has been in spreading its tentacles, in building a web which now enmeshes all areas of life in India. It has been demonstrated that, for all their nominal autonomy, these outfits cannot even dream of

India: Zakia Jafri & CJP say Gujarat government was involved in a conspiracy to target Muslims in mobilising VHP-Bajrang Dal

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/zakia-makes-final-submission-challenging-sits-clean-chit-to-modi/article5142910.ece

THEHINDU
19SEP2013
Zakia makes final submission challenging SIT’s clean chit to Modi

[by] Darshan Desai
Says Gujarat government was involved in a conspiracy to target Muslims in mobilising VHP-Bajrang Dal

Zakia Jafri, widow of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri killed in

India: After Muzaffarnagar, Sangh's narratives of victimhood, belligerence | Gen sec Meerut division of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and UP chief of Bajrang Dal speak

From: The Hindu
Meerut/Muzaffarnagar, September 11, 2013
Updated: September 11, 2013 04:29 IST

Where Sangh spins narratives of victimhood, belligerence

[by] Prashant Jha
PTI: Members of a riot victim’s family at Kakda, near Shahpur in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday.

VHP leader sees conspiracy to ‘expand Muslim population, using Hindu girls as machines’

‘Love Jehad’ is the new technique, says a

India: The Advantages of Being Asaram Bapu

From: India Ink / NY Times, August 30, 2013
The Advantages of Being Asaram Bapu
By SNIGDHA POONAM
Strdel/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu during a ceremony in Jodhpur, Rajasthan on Aug. 11.

Asumal Sirumalani, a popular Indian spiritual leader who is known to his followers as Asaram Bapu, has fought a long battle against sex.

At his crowded satsangs (spiritual