India: One Step Forward, Four Steps Backward
India today seems to be marching not toward inclusive progress but into a regressive spiral of ideological revisionism. Under the influence of Hindutva ideologues, there is a deliberate effort to…
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The Radicalised Hindu Youth of India
The Radicalised Hindu youth of India march ahead. Out there to protect their Hindu Dharma. Swords and Hockey Bats in Hand. Wearing saffron head scarfs on their head and holding…
BJP @45
"If political parties start considering their ideology more important than the country, then freedom will surely be in danger", said Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in his last address to the Constituent…
Modi’s Visit to RSS head office: Is it Sangham Sharnam Gacchami?
The recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to RSS headquarters in Nagpur and pay homage to RSS founder Dr. K.B. Hedgewar and its second Sarsanghchalak, Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar elicited…
Hinduism in Crisis!
In our country with diverse beliefs and traditions coexisting, the promotion of rational thinking and scientific temper is extremely important. Superstitious beliefs, blind practices and rituals are an impediment to…
Zionist-Hindutva Nexus: A Historical and Political Investigation
The convergence of Christian-Jewish-Zionist extremism, European neo-Nazism, and Hindutva ideologies — aided by arms lobbies and imperialist interests — has contributed to a global climate of war hysteria, racism, blasphemy,…
Hindu Festivals and Sectarian Nationalist Politics
RSS Combine’s agenda of Hindu Rashtra has been built upon the narratives through multiple mechanisms. The festivals have been the occasion for promoting its agenda. Also highlighting some deities for…
What does Hindutva politics bring to the working masses?
Hindutva politics claims to be rooted in integral humanism and Gandhian socialism as its foundational principles. The BJP has incorporated these principles into its party constitution and regards them as…
Hindu Far-Right and ‘Left’ Politics in India
I In India, the ‘left politics’ assumes significance in the context of neoliberal globalisation and the political ascendancy of the Hindu far-right. Here the left politics does not mean politics…
Class Character of Hindutva Politics
Hindutva politics has consolidated its base and risen to power by co-opting mass movements against neoliberal capitalism, presenting nationalist Gandhian socialism as an alternative. However, after assuming power, Hindutva-led governments…
Does only Hindu Society Carry the Responsibility of India?
“Hindu Society Nation’s Responsible Core- Sangh seeks to unite Hindu Society, as it is the Hindu Society…that carries the responsibility of Nation” (Mohan Bhagwat, Indian Express, Mumbai Edition, Feb 17,…
When did India Get Independence?
Kangana Ranaut, the actor and MP was the first who spelt her understanding about India’s Independence when she stated that India became Independent in 2014; when Modi came to power.…
New India, New “Legally Permissible Weapons”
“We are committed to turning out the non-Hindu sinners from Delhi.” https://www.siasat.com/vhp-to-distribute-50000-tridents-in-delhi-before-assembly-elections-3154399/ "..Consume less food, purchase a cheaper mobile phone, anything, only promise to have five tridents in a home”.…
Proof of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh being fascist
Sometimes violence is necessary. I was curious to see the news with this title on the front page of today's Dainik Navbharat, so I am trying to write this post…
Driving Hindutva and Culture of Commodification of Identity
In the 1959 Hindi movie “Dhool Ka Phool” (Flowers of the Dust), there is a song written by Sahir Ludhianvi and sung by Mohammad Rafi, which can be translated as:…
Hate transcending the boundaries: Whither dictates by Supreme Leaders
After RSS was formed it went on creating many organizations steeped in its ideology of Hindutva or Hindu Nationalism, a concept based on Aryan race, Brahminical values and the land…
RSS@100: The Sangh and Its Parivar
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), founded on September 27, 1925 by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, a Maharashtrian brahmin, is the leader of the pack, known these days as the Sangh Parivar…
The cost of the RSS turning 100 in 2025!
On 11 October, Akhilesh Yadav was prevented from garlanding the statue of Jayaprakash Narayan on the occasion of his birth anniversary in Lucknow, on 2 October, Sonam Wangchuk was prevented…
Need for the United Front strategy in today’s times of Fascism
India has seen the fascist rise with RSS-BJP led government in power since 2014. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a cadre based organization with its inspirations from Mussolini’s fascist movement…
Arrogance : RSS and Modi
There are speculations about rifts in RSS combine. On one side between Modi and Bhagwat and on the other within BJP. There are sharp differences between Gadkari, U P chief…
Hitler’s Hindutva Friends
The recent lifting of the ban on government servants enrolling as members of the RSS assumes extra significance in that it has come about on the eve of the centenary…
An attempt by people of communal parties in India to create communal polarization in the name of Bangladesh!
The sequence of events that have been happening in our neighbouring country Bangladesh for the last two weeks has made the Hindutva organisations of India very happy. And they are…
An open letter to His Excellency Jagdeep Dhankhar, Vice President of India – By glorifying RSS in Rajya Sabha, Sir, you have violated the Constitutional Oath!
Respected Sir, it needs no reminding that you occupy the august office of Indian Republic’s Vice-President after taking the following oath under Article 69 of the Indian Constitution, “that I…
Honourable Vice President, Why Are You Defending The RSS?
Honourable Vice President and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. You are occupying one of the four highest positions in the country! (1 President 2 Vice President 3 Prime Minister and…
Lifting the six-decade-old ‘ban’ on government employees taking part in the activities of RSS is a retrograde step
Lifting the six-decade-old ‘ban’ on government employees taking part in the activities of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a retrograde step, making a mockery of Sardar Vallabhai's vision of the…
Should Government Employees be allowed to Join RSS?
RSS is the biggest organization in the World. It aims at working for Hindu Rashtra and also claims that it is a Cultural Organization. It is as such striving for Nationalism…
RSS Quandry: Will The State Remain Secular?
For the last four or five days I have found myself wondering if the modern Indian state will remain modern or regress to a medieval stage when separation from religion…
Darkness Visible
The relationship between BJP and RSS is a mystery ordinary mortals cannot penetrate.The RSS supremo seemed to be firing salvos in a direction that covered the BJP headquarters.There has not…
Morbid Symptoms of Hindutva Politics
The recent decline in the BJP’s seat numbers in the Indian parliament, along with their electoral losses in the latest bypolls, indicates a diminishing marginal utility of Hindutva politics. The…
Father, Son and the Push Towards Hindutva Agenda
In the middle of the General elections BJP President, J.P.Nadda stated that BJP is now more capable and does not need the support of RSS for election work. It is…
BJP is under the Hegemony of RSS: Fact corroborated by RSS archives
Ram Madhav is the intellectual face of RSS. He was the RSS spokesperson for more than a decade (2003-2014) and was loaned to BJP in 2014, becoming its prime general…
NDA in Power 2024: Whither Hindu Nationalism?
The failure of BJP to get past 272 has brought back the NDA into the forefront. While Vajpayee came to power and led the NDA Government in 1998, still there…
How Hindutva Parivar’s ‘ideological ancestors’ supported British, Muslim League against Indians
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. —Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 1 , 1862 To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the…
Defeating a Dictator: Fighting Hindutva Dictatorship in Indian Elections
The forthcoming general election in India, scheduled from April 19, 2024, to June 1, 2024, to elect the 543 members of the 18th Lok Sabha and the new Government of…
Monroeville, PA: “HSS Links to RSS ‘Lack Merit’”
Mayor Dr. Nick Gresock caves to HSS, requests negative comments about group be stricken from record I visited Monroeville, PA on 5 March 2024 to warn the municipality that the…
Dear PM Modi! Hindutva Gang Not Congress Colluded with Muslim League in Pre-Independence India
Our PM describes himself as ‘Hindu’ nationalist and member of RSS. He proudly shares the fact that he was groomed to be a political leader by one of the two…
Onward to the past!
Soon after Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, one of the stranger promises he made was that his regime would ‘end 1200 years of slavery in India’. Mr Modi…
Is India Heading Towards a One-Party, One-Nation Scenario?
In recent years, there has been growing concern about the direction of Indian democracy, with many questioning whether the country is heading towards a one-party, one-nation scenario. The dominance of…
Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democratic politics in India and Nepal
by Dhruv Rana, Laabhesh Thapa and Sandeep Pandey In India, we can observe how nationalism is a political ideology that holds devotion to one's country as paramount to all other…
Why Hindutva Is Worried About “Woke People” or “Wokeism”?
How Mohan Bhagwat's exhortation that 'cultural marxism' and 'woke people' are spoiling India's ethos betrays Hindutva Supremacism's real agenda vis-a-vis assertion of the subalterns and independent thinking Being woke means…
Understanding Savarkar And Hindutva
It is an elementary principle of any political conflict or even warfare in the wider sense that in order to fight your enemy you have to acquire a more or…
Highlights Reel of Hindutva Interference in US Sociopolitics – Is it time for US intelligence to put American Hindutva outfits on their radar?
Introducing the Highlights Reel of Hindutva Interference My first direct, personal experience being threatened for opposing India’s Hindu nationalist movement, as an American citizen on US soil, occurred in 2015…
75th Republic Day of India: Hindutva Juggernaut Rolls on to Demolish Democratic-Secular Indian Republic!
Since Narender Bhai Modi, who claims to be a ‘Hindu Nationalist’ and member of RSS took charge as PM of India, the largest democracy in the world, has no respite…
Need to Distinguish The Political Project of The Hindutva From Hinduism
A Ram temple consecration ceremony is scheduled in Ayodhya on 22 January. This temple is being built, after demolition of a mosque at the same place, in the name of…
Hindutva Pop: A Review
Can a song trigger a murder?Can a poem spark a riot?Can a book divide a people? These lines are from the back cover of a newly released book by Kunal…
An open letter to JNU VC – Your association with RSS defies humanism, anti-colonial struggle Indian democracy!
Respected VC of JNU, Santishree Pandit Madam, Namaskaar! I hope the following report in one of the leading English dailies of India did not misreport you when it stated that…
Place of Minorities as Allotted by Savarkar, Golwalkar and Upadhyaya
Hindutva ideologue Golwalker had outlined the place of the minorities in the country in his much talked about book, We, or Our Nationhood Defined (1939), There are only two…
Assam CM’s Claim That Bajrang Dal Has No Link With RSS, Contradicts RSS Archives
A leading RSS cadre who happens to be the chief minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma true to his training at the RSS ‘boudhik shivirs’ (ideological training camps) resorted to…
Hindu Women Subjugated During Muslim Rule-Newest from RSS; A Gurukul Imparting Deceit & Lies
The biggest ‘Hindu’ organization in the world, RSS also functions as an exclusive Gurukul where Hindutva cadres are trained to specialize in the ruthless use of lies, spread of hatred…
Yatras of Hate
The last few years have seen yatras being organized by ‘Hindutva’ groups on various religious occasions. Yatras are part and parcel of religious activities of Hindu devotees from times immemorial.…
How It All Starts
Two days back news about the Bajrang Dal holding an arms training camp at the playground of a school in the district town Mangaldoi here in Assam created sensation and…
Caste system and unitary state
Caste system is not federal. It is in a unitary because of its hierarchical nature. The castes are separate but not independent or equal. It is one caste centric and…
Peeing on Adivasi: Peaking of Caste arrogance
On this 6th July Pravesh Shula, a BJP worker, urinated on an Adivasi boy. Shukla is a close associate of Kedarnath Shukla, the MLA of the area. When Pravesh was…
Abhorrent Aberrations: The “New Normal” in Modi’s “New India”
Last week, video emerged showing what was — at least, what one hopes was — the tail end of a wild night experienced by a seasoned political activist in India’s…
Who cares about RSS Guru Golwalkar’s dishonouring of Kerala’s Hindu women
Demonizing Indian Muslims as barbarians is a project as old as the birth of Hindu nationalism courtesy high Caste Hindus in the second half of the 19th century. Muslims were…
Swadeshi thinking is the seed of hindutva nationalism, observes Saarang Narayan
Saarang Narayan is a postgraduate researcher (doctoral candidate) at the School of History, University of Leeds. He holds Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees in History from Delhi University and the University…
Blurring of the public and private sphere: Nation-building through Hindutva vigilantism
The lines between the public and private have slowly become more and more blurred, with the hope being from the side of Right-Wing Ground activists that eventually it will be…
Repackaging Golwalkar For Our Times
The search for enemies of 'Mother India' has perhaps finally ended for RSS. It is the 'ecosystem of Islamists, evangelists, cultural Marxists and global tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter' …
Attack on rationalists in Bhubaneswar and Berhampur, condemned
On 8th November,22 ,a group of self-styled Hindu extremists attacked the on going in-house meet of the Rationalists at Lohia Academy in Bhubaneswar as well as in Berhampur town of…
12th Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star Calls for All Out Offensive Against RSS Fascism
The 12th Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star held at Shivaram-Sharmishta Hall (SK Pottekad Hall) from September 24 to 29 concluded with a call to resist and defeat RSS neo-fascism. …
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