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As ‘Garba jihad’ becomes news TV’s latest bogey, News Nation champions vigilante violence

The hypermasculine Muslim is back as the scheming villain in the Hindu Rashtra programming of Indian news TV. But the script, at the risk of sounding repetitive, has moved far beyond the mob lynching years to cast itself around “garba jihad”. The anchors are at it again: almost championing vigilante…

Newslaundry

Why Mumbai’s Shivaji Park matters for Shiv Sena

This is where Shiv Sena Chief Balasaheb Thackeray spelled out the party's agenda, like the issue of Marathi manoos, Hindutva, and the party's position on various issues, says veteran Sena leader Gajanan Kirtikar

The Hindu

What is Hindu nationalism and how does it relate to trouble in Leicester?

Hindutva is the predominant form in India and has been associated with rightwing extremism

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Hindutva incomplete without Dalits: BJP leader Paswan

BJP spokesperson Guru Prakash Paswan emphasised that atrocities on the Dalits happening in India and the history of oppression could not be denied nor minimised.

The Hindu

Imagining an alternative scenario in Ayodhya

An amicable solution could have been reached through social, rather than judicial, intervention

The Hindu

Uddhav Thackeray behind ‘beautification’ of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon’s grave, claims BJP, demands apology from former CM

‘The beautification of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict’s graves is one among many incidents, which exposed that Mr. Thackeray, had compromised with Hindutva to protect his position as Chief Minister,” Maharashtra BJP chief Bawankule said.

The Hindu

Amid threats and signal cuts, India’s top independent TV anchor battles on – but for how long?

"While We Watched", a new documentary on veteran journalist Ravish Kumar, attests to the challenges of independent news reporting in India today. Death threats, signal cuts and financial pressures are par for the course at his TV news station, NDTV. Now a recent hostile takeover bid has renewed fears over…

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Let’s Talk About: Reading RSS with Vijai Trivedi

Let’s Talk About: RSS is our three-part deep-dive into the rise and expansion of the Hindutva organisation into a formidable sociocultural and political force in the country.

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Bihar and the evolution of Mandal politics

The next few years will show whether the Mandal platform still has the potential to take on the Hindutva juggernaut

The Hindu

Changing contexts of caste

The meanings of caste have transformed — as a system regulating life chances, as a mode of political mobilisation, or as a socio-cultural identity

The Hindu

Three murders in a communal cauldron

With tempers running high among Hindutva activists in Karnataka after killings and counter-killings in Dakshina Kannada, K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj and Raghava M. report on how the government’s handling of the investigations could further nourish the ecosystem of violence in the State’s coastal belt

The Hindu

Signs of a dead end for social justice politics

The success of the OBC alliance in 2015 in Bihar may be difficult to replicate in the Hindi heartland

The Hindu

Words of wisdom for the Congress’s ‘last Mughals’

With only paper champions defending the idea of India, the party must self-reflect critically to fathom its predicament

The Hindu

What’s fuelling Shivraj Chouhan’s journey from ‘Mamaji’ to ‘Bulldozer Mama’?

In March, Shivraj Singh Chouhan arrived at BJP legislator Rameshwar Sharma’s house in Bhopal for a function celebrating the completion of two years of his fourth term as Madhya Pradesh’s chief minister. He was greeted by a parade of over a dozen bulldozers decked out with posters championing the chief…

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Why coastal Karnataka is southern India’s ‘Hindutva laboratory’

Hindutva refers to Hindu supremacist movement that aims to turn constitutionally secular India into ethnic Hindu state.

The Hindu

Hindutva ideologue Chakravarty Sulibele unleashes attack on BJP leaders and CM Bommai

‘Many people like me can never vote Congress, but we are not fools either to keep people like you in power,’ Sulibele tells BJP

The Hindu

Karnataka | Author Devanuru Mahadeva says he was provoked by the unrest in the State to write a book on the RSS

Mahadeva’s book ‘RSS: Aala Mattu Agala’ has sold more than a lakh copies in less than a month

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One year of Basavaraj Bommai regime: A sharp turn to the right

Contrary to expectations, Bommai-led government has seen Hindutva forces growing louder and stronger

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Harmony in society has taken a hit: Siddaramaiah

At book release programme, former CM also takes a dig at Hindutva

The Hindu

The ‘saint’ and the ‘sinner’

While the RSS pracharak has to live by a harsh moral code, the BJP politician is untethered to any such morality

The Hindu

Uddhav camp spars with Shinde-Fadnavis government over renaming of Aurangabad, Osmanabad

While the BJP faction alleged that the MVA government had taken the decision to rename the cities in an illegal Cabinet meeting that was called after it had lost majority in the Assembly, the Uddhav faction alleged that the new government was just trying to delay the renaming decision of…

The Hindu

Bajrang Dal activist assaulted in Shivamogga

It is said that Kantaraju was targeted for his involvement with Hindutva organisations

The Hindu

India has a history of diverse cultures, says Satchidanandan

‘Existence of many religions not a threat to national unity’

The Hindu

Eshwarappa says Shiv Sena MLAs breaking away to join hands with BJP is justified

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Taming the tiger: On change of guard in Maharashtra

BJP deflected attention from the defection by allowing Shinde retain Sena identity

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