The Assembly election results of 2017 have come as a bolt too many and are a matter of deep celebration for the communal forces. While there is a slight dip in the voting percentage of BJP from 2014 general elections, the number of seats it has wrested is…
Communalising Population Growth: Understanding Demographic Data
The biases and misconceptions about conversions and population growth have been used by communal forces to divide the society. This became apparent once…
Bomb on Tomb Emboding Love & Harmony
The Tablighi Jamat’s Ijtema or religious congregation at Vasind, Taluka Shahpur, Thane In Maharashtra was hugely peaceful. There was the meagre police…
What is our Nationality: Indian or Hindu?
Debate around the words Hindu, Hinduism, Hindutva is not new. Recently the assertion by Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalk (Supreme Dictator) of RSS that ‘everyone living in India is Hindu’ and that Muslims might be Muslim by religion but they are Hindus…
Communal Construction of the Past: Attack on Unit Filming Padmavati
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s (SLB) unit filming the period film, Padmavati was attacked recently (January 2017) near Jaipur in Rajasthan. The pretext was that there is a dream sequence in the film which depicts Alauddin Khilji, the Muslim King and the Rajput…
Gita – Not a National book but a Hindu Scripture
The Haryana government organized Gita Festival in Kurkshetra with a budget of Rs 100 Crores. This was to celebrate the teachings of Bhagavad Gita. This is the place where Lord Krishna is believed to have delivered the sermons that form the core of a version…
Gandhi’s Assassination – Godse and RSS Connection | Ebook
Murder of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was also the first major attack of Hindu nationalism on Indian Nationalism. The murderer of Gandhi, Godse was deeply steeped in the ideology of Hindu nationalism, he grew up in RSS and later also started working…
Will Uniform Civil Code increase national integration?
The current atmosphere (October 2016) is charged with the intense and passionate debates around Uniform Civil Code (UCC). There are a couple of petitions from Muslim women which are pending in the Supreme Court. To this, the Central Government filed an affidavit,…
The Why and How of Uniform Civil Code
What is called as Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is as such dealing with the personal laws (marriage, divorce, maintenance, custody and inheritance). Our criminal and civil laws are same for all the religious communities but our personal laws have been related and…
Did Ashoka’s embracing Buddhism, promoting Ahimsa Weaken India?
The Past is used by communal politics for their present political agenda. In India, on one hand, we have the use of medieval history where the Muslim Kings are presented as ‘aggressors due to whom Hindu society had to suffer’, on the other now we are witnessing…