The Sangh Parivar excels in camouflaging. The ruling dispensation basically thrives upon promoting intolerance emanating out of exploiting identity based societal fault lines. The mandate it won in 2014 was a vote for the chimera of ‘development’ and aspirational pandering rather than identity based mobilization. After winning the elections that[Read More…]
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Ready to go to jail for Ram Mandir: Uma Bharti
Hindutva hardliner and Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said on Saturday that Ram Temple in Ayodhya was her ‘belief’ and she was ready to go to jail for it. “Ram temple is a matter of belief for me and I have immense pride in it, if I have to[Read More…]
Three RSS cadres arrested in Kasargod Madrasa teacher murder case
The special investigation police team has arrested three RSS cadres in connection with the murder of a madrasa teacher, Mohammed Riyaz Moulavi, in Kasargod in Kerala. Ajesh aka Appu,Akhil and Nithin, the three suspects, will be produced before the court on Friday. Kannur Crime Branch superintendent of police A Srinivas, who[Read More…]
Swami Aseemanand gets bail in Mecca Masjid blast case
Days after getting acquitted in the Ajmer dargah blast case, Swami Aseemanand has been granted bail in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case by a court in Hyderabad. With the latest order, a person who boasted about his involvement in the Saffron terror can soon walk out of jail after[Read More…]
UP: ‘Gau rakshaks’ set several meat shops on fire
Two days after ‘gau rakshak’ Yogi Adityanath has been sworn in as UP chief minister, several meat shops were set on fire allegedly by Hindutva brigade in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday night, News 18.com reported. The police have not registered a first information report (FIR) because according[Read More…]
Solve Ram Mandir issue through negotiations, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought an urgent hearing on the Ram Mandir dispute next week and offered to play a mediator to sort out the controversy after suggesting both groups to try for an amicable solution by talks. The SC intervention in the matter comes just a few days[Read More…]
Rationalists’ murder: Bombay HC asks CBI, CID to work in co-ordination
The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the CBI and the Maharashtra CID to make “sincere and joint efforts” to trace the alleged absconding killers of Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare. The Dhabolkar case is being investigated by the CBI and a special team of CID investigates the Pansare murder[Read More…]
Malayalam writer, symbolically cremated his novel, claims attack by Sangh Parivar
Malayalam Writer Kamal C Chavara, who symbolically cremated his novel in protest against the jingoist nationalism, has alleged he was attacked by a Sangh Parivar activist on Sunday in Kunnamangalam near Calicut in Kerala. Chavara said the attacker approached him and asked whether he was the one who had burnt[Read More…]
‘Love for your underwear is not patriotism’: Actor protests intolerance
Noted Malayalam actor Alencier Ley Lopez performed a one-act drama in Kasargod bus station in Kerala protesting against Sangh Parivar’s politics of hatred. The actor dramatically appeared at the bus station and started singing patriotic songs. He went inside buses and asked the passengers, now that the Sangh Parivar is[Read More…]
Vidya Balan opts out of Kamala Das biopic, director Kamal hints at possible right-wing pressure
Actor Vidya Balan has pulled out of a biopic on the poet Kamala Das, Aami, directed by Kamal. Media reports suggest that several Hindutva outfits, including Shiv Sena, were opposed to Vidya Balan playing the role of the controversial figure Director Kamal alleged that Balan’s opting out could be linked[Read More…]