The Latest Breaking News from Hindutva

As I browse my Twitter timeline, surfing through replies by people clearly identifying themselves as staunch Hindus and, more importantly, as Narendra Modi’s supporters, a common theme emerges: among other religious and political iconography, they use as their display pictures the image of an angry Hanuman’s face, bathed in half…

Last week, Amit Shah was at Banaras Hindu University to inaugurate a seminar on Skandagupta Vikramaditya, the 5th century Gupta emperor. Addressing a gathering of academicians, the home minister said there was a need to rewrite India’s history from a new perspective. Why? Because history, as it’s taught today, doesn’t…

It’s obvious the celebrated Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar does not know his roast poussin from his lamb rump. For starters, how could an apparently savvy, accomplished and trained chef not tell the difference between Muslim and Islam when he castigated Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra? In the tweet to Chopra, Kochhar…

The lines between editorial and marketing departments are more blurred than media organisations would like to acknowledge. This has been well established by documentation of paid news cases. The Cobrapost sting reinforces the fact that media’s business model is advertisement-centric.

So, what can Irani do to stay relevant and on top of the political sweepstakes with just the low-profile Textile Ministry in her charge? Remember the last time when she was sacked as HRD minister? Irani grabbed eyeballs, that too in the midst of an all-important BJP party leadership meeting…

The talk of alternative political alignments is in the air. With the BJP failing on most fronts and moving more towards aggressive Hindutva, all anti-BJP forces and even some erstwhile BJP leaders and allies are scouting for alternative formations to take on the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine.

Motoring smoothly towards 2019 and the aim of securing a second term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Hindutva juggernaut has hit a road bump shortly after tasting success in Tripura in early March. Top of the list of concerns for Modi and BJP president Amit Shah ahead of next…

MS Golwalkar, BJP’s guruji, wasn’t closeted about his admiration for Hitler. His ideas of Hindutva and Hitler’s ethnic cleansing had much in common. Both believed in the creation of modern nation states with only pure races—one by expelling Jews, the other by desiring a similar fate for Muslims. Their vision had…