Her remarks during the Lok Sabha election campaign where she described Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi's assassin, as a "patriot" sparked fury from the opposition.
November 21, 2019The book is a repudiation of Hindu nationalism, and its rise in Indian society, which relied upon an interpretation of the religion which was markedly different from the one with which he has grown up, practised and had studied.
September 5, 2018On the occasion of our completing 70 years of Independence, a number of reputed English language newspapers published blogs of famous overseas Indian writers about their thoughts on that event. The comments were uniformly banal, with the common theme of the alarming rise of the Hindutva brigade out to destroy our diversity of culture, religions …
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