short interview with Jyotirmaya Sharma about his book on Swami Vivekananda and Hindu Nationalism

Religion Dispatches
December 9, 2013

Political Hinduism: India's Disenchanted Religion
By Jyotirmaya Sharma



Jyotirmaya Sharma

Jyotirmaya Sharma is professor of political science at the University of Hyderabad, India. His recent publications include, Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism (Penguin/Viking, 2003; second edition published in december 2011) and

Photo of a banner that appeared in Pune soon after BJP victories in 3 states in assembly elections - 8 December 2013

Matri Shakti and Durga Vahini - the women's wings of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad Demand Tarun Tejpal's arrest

http://in.news.yahoo.com/women-groups-demand-tejpals-arrest-124004418.html

Women groups demand Tejpal's arrest
IANS India Private Limited/Yahoo India NewsBy Indo Asian News Service | IANS India Private Limited/Yahoo India News

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Women organisations in the national capital Tuesday staged a rally, demanding the arrest of Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, accused of

India: Email post Attacking IPS Officer RB Shreekumar being circulated by Madhu Kishwar, CSDS Delhi

Madhu Kishwar madhukishwar@manushi-india.org

4:04 PM (16 November 2013)

Nambi Narayanan Demands Probe on IPS Officer RB Shreekumar & Gang-who Sabotaged ISRO's Satellite Program at CIA's Behest

This is the unedited version of my interview with ISRO's lead scientist Nambi Narayanan on 26 August 2013 regarding the role played by rogue IPS officer, RB Shreekumar in sabotaging ISRO's satellite

India: The Hindutva brigade’s Internet campaign has taken propaganda to new heights of incredulity

Frontline, November 29, 2013

Cyber assault

In Chicago, supporters of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi listen to his address through a videoconference organised by the Overseas Friends of the BJP on November 3. Photo:PTI
Saba Dewan, film-maker. She found it strange to be flooded, on Eid, with cartoons, photographs and posts criticising the sacrifice of goats and other animals. The posts

Combating Hindutva challenge - Editorial, Kashmir Times

Kashmir Times

Editorial: Combating Hindutva challenge
Secular forces should make it a battle of ideologies and not a clash of personalities

Tragically, the Congress leaders have virtually fallen in the sangh parivar’s trap of converting the ongoing elections in some states and the for the coming 2014 polls for the Lok Sabha as a clash between personalities or simply as a battle between the two

Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism By Anna Schultz

India: Hindutva Brigade and Asaram’s Sins | Nilotpal Basu

People's Democracy, November 03, 2013

Hindutva Brigade and Asaram’s Sins

by Nilotpal Basu

IN these troubled times, when the helpless aam admi is exposed to a degree of fire and brimstone from the likes of Narendra Modi, attention on the criminal travails of Asaram Bapu in the mainstream media was welcome. Not that the media did full justice to multiple dimensions of the so-called Godman’s ‘

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

The Sexual Politics of Modi, the BJP and the Sangh Parivar - Leaflet by India Against Fascism

http://www.sacw.net/article6049.html

India: A Snappy Guide to the Right Wing - Narendra Modi and his Backers

A pocket guide to India’s Right Wing
by Youth Against Fascism
http://sacw.net/article6011.html

Gujarat: Asaram Poster by Hindutva Right in Trains - with quote from top right wing leader Subramanium Swamy

URGENT PLEASE ACT

The Deviousness of the Hindutva with the BJP Heading it has been Exposed with these posters that have SUDDENLY appeared in ALL TRAIN COMPARTMENTS leaving Gujarat TODAY. That it is a BJP and Modi backed move is clear from the fact Subramaniam Swamy - a favourite with television anchors-- is seen in the visual...

Will the BJP be held to account for this communalising of the

India: Hindutva vigilantes target Hindu-Muslim couples

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/hindutva-vigilantes-target-hindumuslim-couples/article5231849.ece







Hindutva vigilantes target Hindu-Muslim couples



AMRUTA BYATNAL






The
cover of a booklet distributed by Hindutva vigilante squad Hindu
Rakshak Samiti urging people to ‘save Hindu girls from the terrorism of
Love Jihad’. Photo: Special Arrangement

The BJP: Political Mobilization for Hindutva - Manini Chatterjee

The Communal Problem in India, Part I: Secularism and Communalism: Political Assessments, Theoretical Explorations:

Manini Chatterjee

The BJP: Political Mobilization for Hindutva Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Spring 1994 14(1): 14-23; doi:10.1215/07323867-14-1-14

http://cssaame.dukejournals.org/content/14/1/14.full.pdf+html

Comment on the 2014 Election Campaign in India | Papri Sri Raman

From: truthout.org

Emerging Party in 2014 Election in India Led by Militant "Orator"

24 September 2013 13:55 By Papri Sri Raman, Truthout | Op-Ed

India, like the United States, is one of the largest democracies in the world - and also home to 1.23 billion people. By April 2014, the country will elect a lower House of Parliament for the 16th time. These elections are being described by the

India: Hindutva Right wing peddles fake email attributed to Mark Tully | Gillian Wright says this mail is fake

Screen grab from Sanghparivar.org - 10 Oct 2013
Italian by Birth and Roman Catholic by Baptism: Article on Sonia by John Maclithon (Mark Tully)
John Maclithon (Mark Tully) on Indian Politics and why Hindu Dharma will survive
I was surprised when the Congress party gave me a Padma Shri – I am the only foreign journalist to ever get it. For, in my forty years of political reporting in India, I

For Vile Hindutva Propaganda Check Out This Rag from Bombay

A Hindu Charge-sheet against the UPA Govt.
P. Deivamuthu, Editor, Hindu Voice
http://tinyurl.com/lv494sn

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Goregaon West, Mumbai 400104
Tel: 022-28764416, 28764460, 09324728153.
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India: Charges framed against Aseemanand, six others of Hindutva terror network in Ajmer blast case

From: The Hindu

JAIPUR, September 26, 2013

Charges framed against Aseemanand, six others in Ajmer blast case

Special Correspondent

One of the accused says Congress leaders pressured him to implicate senior RSS functionaries

A special court for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) cases here has framed charges against seven persons accused of carrying out a blast in the Ajmer dargah in

India: 'Democratisation' of communalism | Apoorvanand

Daily News and Analysis, September 23, 2013

'Democratisation' of communalism

by Apoorvanand

The emergence of caste identity politics has led to the demise of secular politics.

One needs to remember that the Sangh has never believed in a puritanical Hindutva. Its endeavour has always been to somehow be part of the power structure, even if it meant withdrawal of some of its key demands
One

India: With friends such as these, who needs enemies? | Jyoti Punwani

Daily News and Analysis

With friends such as these, who needs enemies?
Wednesday, Oct 2, 2013, 8:18 IST | Agency: DNA

Jyoti Punwani

It’s not easy being a Muslim in India at the best of times. But when elections draw near, it’s hell. Out to prove their concern for you, politicians say and do things that make you the target of shrill, drummed-up attacks, which may not be only verbal.