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Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi remains, even 75 years after his assassination, a useful symbol for many in India. For secularists, the leader of the country’s independence movement represents an imagined India of the past. For the current government, he is a means by which it can soften its international image.

The trajectory and tenor of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s southward push is going to be a striking subtext of the party’s journey over the next few years. But this isn’t because of its national executive meeting in Telangana last year, or because of its resolution on the party’s growth.

The recent disorder in Leicester echoes the ‘communalist’ politics that now dominates India thanks to the ruling BJP, says sociology professor Chetan Bhatt

Writer Arundhati Roy dissects Hindutva fascism; says key question to ask is what makes people revere a person that is humiliating them

Revisiting the ideals of Ambedkar’s neo-Buddhist movement can be helpful in building fierce ideological challenges to Hindutva’s understanding of history and culture

The film-maker has accused the Hindutva forces of continuously trying to appropriate Tamil identity; Kamal Haasan endorses the film-maker’s view; Telangana Governor Tamilisai sees bid to hide cultural identity

For the first time since 1966, Shiv Sena’s annual Dasara rally is split into two factions, both laying claim to Hindutva and Bal Thackeray’s legacy

The hypermasculine Muslim is back as the scheming villain in the Hindu Rashtra programming of Indian news TV. But the script, at the risk of sounding repetitive, has moved far beyond the mob lynching years to cast itself around “garba jihad”. The anchors are at it again: almost championing vigilante…

This is where Shiv Sena Chief Balasaheb Thackeray spelled out the party's agenda, like the issue of Marathi manoos, Hindutva, and the party's position on various issues, says veteran Sena leader Gajanan Kirtikar