Right Wing Narratives
Hindutva’s Unending Search for an Imaginary Past Subhash Gatade 04 Feb 2022 https://www.newsclick.in/Hindutva-Unending-Search-Imaginary-Past
The Centre is planning a museum at Pusad, in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, in memory of the 1930 Jungle Satyagraha. it plans to dedicate to RSS founder KB Hedgewar.
The Jungle Satyagraha was led by regional leaders such as lawyer, freedom-fighter and Congress member from Nagpur MV Abhyankar, Wamanrao Joshi, a Marathi journalist, playwright, and freedom fighter from Amravati and MS ‘Bapuji’ Aney, an educationist, freedom fighter and founder of the Congress Nationalist Party.
Biographies of Hedgewar written by votaries of exclusivist Hindutva corroborate his position, recording that he “sent information that the Sangh will not participate in the Satyagraha”.. He joined the Satyagraha not as an RSS man but in his personal capacity
- by Rajmohan Gandhi February 01, 2022 https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/hindutva-is-running-into-difficulties-by-rajmohan-gandhi-2741462
Reminding Indians in 2022 of the lives and thoughts of Bose, Ambedkar and Patel would only strengthen those who are striving to preserve India as a nation for everyone.
Ramachandra Guha: India’s fate hangs on whether we pick exclusionary Hindutva or Gandhi’s pluralism by Ramachandra Guha https://scroll.in/article/1016231/ramachandra-guha-indias-fate-hangs-on-whether-we-pick-exclusionary-hindutva-or-gandhis-pluralism
Gandhi emphatically rejected the suggestion that the majority community had the right to dominate politics and governance in the country.
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In this explosive fantasy by Saeed Naqvi, India is confronted with the disappearance of its Muslims
Scene I of the play ‘The Muslim Vanishes’.
Saeed Naqvi
Quotes from the play: :
Brajesh: Isn’t that the most obvious part of this mystery? You beat them with shoes and humiliate them; you kill them in broad daylight; you rape their mothers, daughters and sisters; you lynch them on cooked-up allegations of having killed a cow. And all this happens next door to Delhi, in Haryana. Then, the videos are played on the news all day, and you are forced to relive it over and over again. Come to think of it, the disappearance of the Muslims may prove to be a major landmark in the case for a Hindu Rashtra.
Anand [puzzled]: The Muslims have nothing to do with this. We have never forced our beliefs on them. It is the Hindus who have suffered under foreign rule.
Brajesh: Times have changed. This is the age of Hindu assertion. I am a liberal but believe in the values of staying true to ancient Hindu traditions.
Anand: Are you suggesting that this was not possible while the Muslims were here?
Brajesh: They do not know our ancient culture. How could they? It predates their arrival. Although Muslim rulers, from Akbar to the later Mughals, adored our culture. But why go into that? It is irrelevant now that the entire community has disappeared [shrugs]...
Love jihad: India's lethal religious conspiracy theory https://youtu.be/8ZoCEA_V8GA Jan 21, 2022
The Guardian The mutilated body of a 24-year-old Muslim, Arbaaz Aftab Mullah, was discovered on a railway track near his home. His family believe he was murdered because of his interfaith relationship with a Hindu woman and that he is one of the latest victims of the 'love jihad' conspiracy theory, which has swept across groups of Hindu nationalists in India. The theory claims that Muslim men are seducing Hindu women and luring them into marriage in order to convert them to Islam. The claims are baseless, yet the consequences are real
‘They cut him into pieces’: India’s ‘love jihad’ conspiracy theory turns lethal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/they-cut-him-into-pieces-indias-love-jihad-conspiracy-theory-turns-lethal
Those who believe in the theory claim that Muslim men are luring Hindu women into marriage on false pretences, in order to convert them to Islam and ensure Muslim dominance over the Hindus in India.
According to India’s national investigation agency, there is no evidence for “love jihad”, nor is it reflected in India’s population data, where Hindus continue to make up about 80% and Muslims 14%.
But what was once a fringe extremist theory has now been brought into the political mainstream and, last year, numerous BJP-ruled states, including Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, passed legislation to clamp down on conversion for interfaith marriages – laws colloquially known as the “love jihad” laws.