Showing posts with label communal propaganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communal propaganda. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Bharat Bhushan: Take me to the past, Doc | Business Standard

Unlike Marty McFly in Back to the Future, Modi lacks a
time-travelling car to go back to the past so that his own future can be
set right






















 

 by Bharat Bhushan























Can one go back into the past to

Saturday, 16 November 2013

The Early Bloomers | Outlook Cover story by Saba Naqvi

The Early Bloomers
Narendra Modi’s ‘history of gaffes’ no doubt reveals his own ignorance but also stems from the hoary RSS tradition of manufacturing facts to suit their ideology
Saba Naqvi
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?288539

Sensational grist - concept of “love jehad” with the feudal-patriarchal prejudices of “honour” in north India | Frontline

Frontline, Cover Story Print edition : November 29, 2013

Sensational grist

The Sangh Parivar has successfully dovetailed its concept of “love jehad” with the feudal-patriarchal prejudices of “honour” in north India. By AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA

With blatant lies under its surface, the Sangh’s campaign of “love jehad” has a filial relationship with the notion of Hindu victimhood, its

Bhagva Brigade Poster | Photo Frontline Magazine


A poster of the Bhagwa Brigade notifying the recruitment of 'Hindu Yoddha', or warriors, in Bhopal on September 14, 2010. The campaign was to recruit 10,000 activists from all over Madhya Pradesh to be trained to deal with religious conversion, 'love jehad' and such other issues. Photo:A.M. Faruqui

Friday, 15 November 2013

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

RSS to Hindus: shun family planning, have more kids


Ramesh Babu, Hindustan Times
Kochi, October 27, 2013

RSS to Hindus: shun family planning, have more kids

For the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), it’s the more the merrier.

On the lines of the Catholic church’s campaign to have more children and win rewards, the RSS has advised Hindus to go for bigger families and not to limit their number of children. Concerned over the dwindling size of

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

India: Sangh brand of scaremongering and communal propaganda re Muslim population

Muslim population myths
by TK Arun
(Times of India, Oct 30, 2013)

At the recently concluded national executive meet at Kochi, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh joint secretary Dattatreya Hosabale called upon Hindus to start having more children. The RSS fear is that Hindus will become a minority in India in the not-too-distant future. This rests on a number of population myths the RSS has

Friday, 1 November 2013

Love Jihad and Demographic Fears (Mohan Rao)

September 19, 2013

Mohan Rao is a Professor at the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

He can be contacted at mohanrao2008@gmail.com

The write-up has been lifted from his facebook wall.

One of the most remarkable campaigns by Right-wing forces over the last few years in India goes under the startling name of “Love-Jihad”. Love Jihad crudely

Thursday, 31 October 2013

On Population Paranoia Among Hindutva Fundamentalists | Subhash Gatade

Time for a Group Marriage of Sangh Pracharaks ?
On Population Paranoia Among Hindutva Fundamentalists

by subhash gatade

This communalisation of demography has a fairly long history. As early as 1909, U N Mukherji, who would go on to co-found the Punjab Hindu Maha Sabha, wrote a book entitled 'Hindus: A Dying Race,' which influenced many subsequent publications by the Sabha, the parent

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Modi’s Hypocrisy: The Rahul Modi Spat on Riots Breeding Terrorists | Mukul Sinha

Mukul Sinha October 27, 2013

Due to the riots, those youths who are living in refugee camps you have leveled a serious allegation against them of Treason ? It is your responsibility to name names of those you think are involved with ISI. If you cant name names yet you make such allegations against one community then please give a public apology to those Indian Youth.
said Narendra Modi in

India: Communal propaganda on demography continues - Hindu families should have at least three kids say RSS

From: The Times of India

Hindu families should have at least three kids: RSS
T Ramavarman, TNN | Oct 27, 2013, 08.34 AM IST

RSS has suggested that more children will help check the reported demographic shift that is happening in favour of minorities in certain parts of the country.

KOCHI: The RSS has suggested that the Hindus should revisit their practice of "blindly accepting" family planning

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Online petition to the Election Commission re Communaly Sensitive Posters in Indian Railways run Trains

It has been brought to our notice that hundreds, if not thousands of posters (Image Pasted with petition ) have suddenly been observed in all trains leaving Gujarat state. The contents of these posters with the provocative heading “Why is There a Conspiracy Against Sadhu Sants in Bharat?” is a clearcut effort to communalise the atmosphere ahead of the state elections in over five states and also

Thursday, 10 October 2013

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

Sunday, 6 October 2013

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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Publication information:
Hindu Voice,
210 ABHINAV, Teen Dongri, Yeshwant Nagar,
Goregaon West, Mumbai 400104
Tel: 022-28764416, 28764460, 09324728153.
Email: hinduvoicemumbai@gmail.com

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Sunday, 8 September 2013

India: Internet video from Pakistan recycled and used by the Hindutva Right wing in Muzaffanagar, UP

Hindutva site on Facebook hosts a video that sparked the violence in Muzaffarnagar. Independent sources claim that apparently this video of violence in Pakistan in Sialkot in 2010 was recycled and presented as that of recent events in Kawal village near Muzaffarnagar in UP). The original of video on youtube is at: http://youtu.be/76M42nh6nJ0 It seems this fake video have been distributed via