Tag: Hindutva

“Our Hindutva is about sacrificing life for the country” says Uddhav Thackeray

Thackeray said, "On one hand they read Hanuman Chalisa and on other hand, they go to mosques & listen Qawali, is this their Hindutva?"

April 17, 2023

BJP tweaks Hindutva narrative in poll-bound Raj, focuses on folk gods

The BJP seems to be changing its Hindutva model strategy and is focussing more on folk Gods in poll-bound Rajasthan.

February 5, 2023

History, memory and identity

The idea of nationality as a marker of belonging emanating from one’s ancestral land is neither new nor unique.

August 6, 2022

Can Hindutva be dismantled?

There are about 1.2 billion Hindus in the world. India, which has a population of 1.4 billion, has 80 per cent of its population Hindu. This means that there are 1.1 billion Hindus in India or 93 per cent of the global Hindu population. 

May 1, 2022

BJP campaign for KMC poll to focus on Hindutva in big way

Underscoring Hindutva, propagation of which has catapulted it to power at the Centre, the game plan will be practiced with visits to various temples in the city. The visits to the deities will be without flags sending a message to its core support base, it was learnt from party sources.

December 13, 2021

BJP slams Rahul Gandhi over distinguishing between Hinduism and Hindutva

The development came on a day when another Congress stalwart Salman Khurshid’s book on Hindutva and Ayodhya stirred a hornet’s nest by likening forces of ‘Hindutva’ to the dreaded terror outfit ISIS.

November 13, 2021

Congress vis-à-vis BJP

The BJP's strategy provides a good model. There is only one Hindutva party in India. All Hindutva forces are together, from the BJP to the Bajrang Dal. The Congress, by contrast, allowed itself to be splintered again, thus fragmenting secular politics.

June 8, 2020

Maharashtra Speaker rejects BJP’s demand for resolution on Hindutva ideologue Savarkar

Sharad Pawar said that everyone has respect for Savarkar and his contribution to the freedom struggle, but not everyone agreed with some of his views.

February 26, 2020

Restraint over language must be maintained in Bihar polls: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan

The remarks by the BJP ally assume significance as they come after a vitriolic Delhi Assembly polls campaign in which some BJP leaders were rapped by the Election Commission for making inflammatory speeches.

February 16, 2020

West Bengal CM alleges BJP of attempting religious conversion in state

CM also said that she would soon write to other Chief Ministers requesting them to desist from conducting the National Population Register (NPR) exercise in their states.

February 15, 2020

Left parties to organise nationwide protest against BJP’s divisive politics

BJP's politics of divisiveness, communalism had caused enmities between religion groups while development has taken the back seat, Left Front chairman Biman Bose said in a statement.

February 13, 2020

Victim of half-truth~II

Although VD Sarvarkar, the then president of the Hindu Mahasabha, kept demanding Akhand Bharat or undivided India, ironically he was the one who propounded the twonation theory in 1923, in his book Hindutva, 17 years before Jinnah did in 1940. MS Golwalkar, the head of the RSS, also felt that the freedom movement should not be an anti-British struggle for territorial gains, instead it ought to be a movement towards establishing a Hindu nation. The Congress leadership had increasingly sidelined Gandhi by the end of 1946

January 31, 2020

Uttarakhand railway signboards to replace Urdu with Sanskrit

The names of railway stations in Uttarakhand on platform signboards still appear in Urdu as most of them belong to the period when the state was part of Uttar Pradesh where Urdu is the second official language.

January 19, 2020

Politics meaningless without religion, says BJP working president JP Nadda

Nadda's statement comes at a time when nationwide protests are taking place against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) which is seen as a discriminatory law against the Muslims.

January 3, 2020

Over 60 members of Hindu Jagaran Manch arrested in Kolkata for creating ruckus

BJP MP Anupam Hazra was also involved in a scuffle with the police.

December 4, 2019

‘Still with ideology of Hindutva’: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray

Thackeray became the new chief minister of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance of the ideologically different parties- the Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP. His move has been criticized by many for diluting the party’s Hindutva ideology.

December 1, 2019

Religion & geopolitics

Today, the known arsenals are estimated to be large enough to destroy the earth three times over. This is only to emphasize how ensuring positive peace is a desperate need. There is no ethos, idea or ideology, which can enable such a peace, other than self-actualizing Hinduness.

October 27, 2019