Sanatan Sanstha is not terrorist outfit under UAPA, it aims to ‘impart spiritual knowledge’, says HC

The Hindutva organisation is accused of playing a role in the murders of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar, MM Kalburgi and Govind Pansare.

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· Mar 26, 2023 · 07:35 pm

Kannada actor Chetan Kumar arrested for tweet criticising Hindutva

The actor had written that the ideology is based on lies. He has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

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· Mar 21, 2023 · 07:03 pm

Sanatan dharma is the national religion of India, says Adityanath

The Uttar Pradesh CM also said that campaigns to restore allegedly desecrated temples, on the lines of Ayodhya’s Ram Temple, must be launched.

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· Jan 29, 2023 · 11:44 am

How Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Padma Vibhushan shows the hollowness of the BJP’s Hindutva politics

The award is aimed at wooing OBC votes. But does it erase the memory of BJP footsoldiers who died in firing ordered by the Samajwadi Party leader in 1990?

Vivek Deshpande

· Jan 28, 2023 · 07:00 am

Analysis: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s advice to Muslims could actually apply to Hindutva supporters

The RSS chief urged Muslims to abandon their ‘supremacist’ view even as the Sangh itself claims Hindus have the god-given duty to rescue the world.

Vivek Deshpande

· Jan 14, 2023 · 06:30 am

What the hounding of Shah Rukh Khan and Indian Muslims says about the deep rot in our society

Indian Muslims cannot end this violence. It is for Hindus to fight the evil within.

Apoorvanand

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Alishan Jafri

· Dec 27, 2022 · 09:00 am

Telangana government rejects suspended MLA T Raja Singh’s appeal to revoke detention

The suspended BJP legislator was detained on August 25 for making allegedly derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad.

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· Oct 27, 2022 · 12:52 pm

From ayurveda advocacy to ‘Kartavya Path’: The canny decolonial politics of Narendra Modi

In making a connection between colonialism and ayurveda, Modi addresses a decades-long sense of cultural and scientific inferiority among Indians.

Sanya Dhingra

· Oct 04, 2022 · 06:30 am

How a lagoon in Gujarat’s Toraniya shows up the government’s fake claims about the Narmada project

Two decades before the contested Sardar Sarovar dam brought water to dry parts of the state, a group of dedicated activists delivered on a small promise.

Dilip D’Souza

· Sep 11, 2022 · 09:00 am

Why Arvind Kejriwal is borrowing the RSS vocabulary of supremacist nationalism

Exploring the strategy of Hindutva lite.

Vivek Deshpande

· Sep 10, 2022 · 09:00 am

Bajrang Dal stops Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt from entering Ujjain temple

Hindutva supporters have called for a boycott of the actors’ upcoming movie ‘Brahmastra’ after a video of Kapoor saying he likes to eat beef went viral.

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· Sep 07, 2022 · 09:59 am

First Ram, now Ganesh: How the gods are being drafted into the battles of Hindutva politics

All kinds of tricks are being used to evict Muslims from public places or take away their collective spaces.

Apoorvanand

· Sep 02, 2022 · 06:30 am