Showing posts with label communalisation of history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communalisation of history. 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

Glorifying Communalists, Insulting Freedom fighters | Subhash Gatade

Glorifying Communalists, Insulting Freedom fighters
Nation Demands an Apology Mr Modi
by subhash gatade

'Though this be madness yet there is method in it'
- 'Hamlett', Shakespeare

I.

What would be your take if one fine morning, you get up and find name of a great freedom fighter getting replaced by someone who had collaborated with the colonialists, who had opposed people's anti-colonial

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Abuse of HIstory: Modi Style | Ram Puniyani


History is not just the past. It is a potent weapon for various political agendas in the present. It can be clearly seen in the use of history in rise of Hindu-Muslim rightwing in India. As far as presently dominant Hindu national politics is concerned, this abuse of history can be seen in the type and period of History used. When Meenaxipuram, conversions of dalits to Islam took place in 1981,

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

India: Hindutva's dark legacy: Sangh Parivar (Mis)Appropriates Patel

Kashmir Times

Hindutva's dark legacy: Sangh Parivar (Mis)Appropriates Patel
By Praful Bidwai

Whatever its other sins-and there are many-the Sangh Parivar can never be accused of one thing: of having produced a half-way tall intellectual. Indeed, no star in the Hindutva firmament, from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder KB Hedgewar, and its longest-serving sarasanghachalak MS Golwalkar, to the

Saturday, 7 September 2013

India: Learning acquires saffron hue in RSS-run schools in Madhya Pradesh

From:









India Today
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Archive / 

EDUCATION / 

August 15, 1992 / 
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Injecting propaganda


Learning acquires saffron hue in RSS-run schools in Madhya Pradesh



N.K. Singh
 January 3, 2013 | UPDATED 10:51 IST















Prayers at a Vidya Bharati school

Have
you heard this one? If 15 kar sevaks demolish the Babri Masjid in 300
days