The Maharashtra government has very cleverly called only ‘indigenous cows’ Rajyamata.

The core aim of all 'love jihad' propaganda is linked to patriarchal values which accompany Hindutva politics in the name of religion.

Seeing the strong reaction of many Sikh organisations, the RSS has to now concede that Sikhism is an independent religion.

Secularism stands for equality of all irrespective of Religion, caste and gender. Dharma in the Indian case upholds gross inequality.

The criticism of Nehru and Patel on the issue of Hyderabad is one sided and a biased attempt to tarnish their aspiration, which might not have fully fructified. 

Today in India the many misconceptions against Muslims form the base of violence. The misconceptions are becoming stronger over the period of time and have become a part of ‘social common sense’.

While proportionate representation and caste census is an eyesore for Hindu Nationalists, led by RSS, its beginnings are in Poona Pact between Gandhi and Ambedkar and later it found its place in Indian Constitution.

At a deeper level the understanding of the RSS is that the major reason for the BJP’s decline in this election has been due to the shifting of Dalit vote towards INDIA coalition.

Yunus, true to his pluralism visited the Dhakeshwari temple on August 13 and met Hindu leaders to assuage their pain and reassure their safety. That is so reassuring.

Today, caste census is the need of the time as the reservation quotas were fixed decades earlier and present percentages of the population may be much different.

Major leaders of the freedom struggle were very clear about the nature of RSS, which masquerades as a cultural organisation and expands its base by appealing to the emotions of the public.

The recent orders requiring eateries in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to display name plates — which have been stayed by the Supreme Court — have drawn chilling comparisons to apartheid-era South Africa and Nazi Germany, where Jews were forced to identify their businesses, precursing brutal persecution.

More the insecurity, more the submission to Baba, and common sense or rational thinking is given a total go bye by the followers.

While leaders like Mahatma Gandhi to Rahul Gandhi have expanded and enhanced the humane aspect of Hinduism, BJP and RSS, inspired by Savarkar, have trodden the path of hate and consequent violence.

While we look back to the period of emergency 1975, we need to introspect and ward off the undeclared emergency which the country has been witnessing from the last decade.

At the inaugural of the new campus of Nalanda University, PM Modi said that the university was burnt by foreign invaders in the 12th century. He was just parroting the popular perception that Bakhtiyar Khilji, the courtier of Mahmud Ghori, had burnt it.

At the inaugural of the new campus of Nalanda University, PM Modi said that the university was burnt by foreign invaders in the 12th century. He was just parroting the popular perception that Bakhtiyar Khilji, the courtier of Mahmud Ghori, had burnt it.

RSS must be all smiles as its agenda has gone several notches up, and slight ego clashes don’t matter in the long run to the fountainhead of Hindu nationalist ideology.  

It is not easy to undo deep polarisation introduced into society due to organised hatred.

...but films have, indeed, been made due to his fame and reputation.