Culture & Nationalism
Understanding Hindutva from intellectual mindset By Sudesh Verma https://thedailyguardian.com/understanding-hindutva-from-intellectual-mindset/
November 16, 2021
By Sudesh Verma
To those who would adhere to the definition given by the Supreme Court of India in 1995, there is hardly any difference between Hindu, Hinduism, and Hindutva and all three describe the same which is the way of life that evolved in India over many centuries. While Hindu is membership of the Sanatan tradition for people born in this land, Hinduism is the traits or qualities that define being a Hindu such as use of reason, truthfulness, spiritual awakening, tolerance etc that make one a better human being. Hindutva in that sense would be attaining those ideals- the highest form of spiritual awakening where one becomes akin to God. It is the same as Buddh, Buddhism, and Bodhitva.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat recently tried to clear cobwebs to counter those who try to paint the organisation in a negative light because of their vested political interest. While addressing a meeting of Muslim Rashtriya Manch in July, he stated that those involved in lynchings were against Hindutva. Any person who says Muslims should not live in India is not a Hindu, he stressed. He further added that “nationalism and glory of ancestors” should form the basis of Hindu-Muslim unity.
It embraces all qualities which Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to assimilate in My idea of India in his historic speech at the BJP’s national council in January 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DofR5REC0NA My idea of India) ( full speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGg4QW31w7k ) when he had yet not become the Prime Minister.
Pune principal’s assault: No evidence of ‘forced’ Christian prayers, complainant backtracks too https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/07/13/pune-principals-assault-no-evidence-of-forced-christian-prayers-complainant-backtracks-too Prateek Goyal 13 Jul, 2023 A video of the July 4 assault had gone viral on social media.
Last week, media and social media was flooded with reports on the Christian principal of a school in Pune being thrashed for purportedly forcing students to recite Christian prayers. Alexander Coates Reed, principal of DY Patil High School in Talegaon, was also accused of installing CCTVs in the girls’ toilet. .. But days later, the Pimpri-Chinchwad police, which has jurisdiction over the area, said it had found no evidence of students being forced to “recite Christian prayers”. The police also said the CCTVs were not installed inside the toilets but in the common areas near the wash basins in both the girls’ and boys’ washrooms...
2002 Gujarat HISTORY Full Documentary Hindi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaMDIUkoXrg
from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtPgtkTOR0HEU2ywLPCzI4g/videos The Documentaries are curated based on available information around the globe to create awareness with rightful information for Viewers.
In the Face of Orchestrated Hatred, Silence Is Not an Option: An Appeal to India’s Constitutional Institutionsby journalist and media persons -- "the President of India, the Chief Justices and other Judges of the Supreme Court of India and the various High Courts, the Election Commission of India, and other constitutionally provisioned and statutory bodies are constitutionally obliged to ensure that these calls for violence do not translate into something unimaginably worse. Since sections of the media have also allowed themselves to become conduits for hate speech, the Press Council of India, the News Broadcasters & Digital Association, unions and associations of working journalists, and all media-related bodies need to respond urgently to the crisis at hand." for full text
झूठ बोल रहा था ऑक्सफ़ोर्ड-कैंब्रिज ने बोलने बुलाया है । Navin Kumar Jun 5, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMAwx4aXiI मोदी तक का नाम पर बेच डाला। अनुपम खेर ने मूर्ख, धूर्त, पाखंडी सब कह दिया था। दुनिया हंस रही है। इंडिया का इतना बड़ा डायरेक्टर फ्रॉडिया है, झुट्ठा है, पाजी है।
Vivek Agnihotri claims in the video that he was invited by Cambridge University’s Fitz William College and Oxford University to deliver the lecture. After which he was not allowed to do video recording in the Cambridge University program and the Oxford University union canceled his scheduled program... In an official reply to questions posed by the BBC over email, Nicola, the college’s director of mass communications, said, “The college had accepted bookings for an event from the Lord Rana Foundation for 30 May 2022 which was completely private and commercial. Vivek does not have any relation with Agnihotri’s program and this information was also given to him by the Twitter handle of the college.
In its investigation, the BBC Disinformation Unit found that Vivek Agnihotri was not invited by Cambridge University or Fitz William College but had come to attend a private event of the Rana Foundation which was held in an event hall of the college itself.
Oxford University’s director of mass communications, Stephens, officially emailed the BBC, saying: “The Oxford Union is a private and independent litigation organization and is not part of the University of Oxford. The University of Oxford has no control over the union.”
Kashmir Files: Vivek Agnihotri's film exposes India's new fault lines By Meryl Sebastian BBC News, Delhi 15 March 2022 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60732939