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2 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Dhirendra K Jha |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy |Purushottam Agrawal
Addressing BJP MPs in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attributed the formation of the first unabashedly Hindutva government to the “tapasya [penance] of five generations”, alluding to the efforts of the RSS (founded in 1925). The RSS was founded by K.B. Hedgewar and his colleagues to spread political Hindutva as articulated by V.D. Savarkar, but it was confined to Maharashtra until Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar took over as its second sarsanghchalak, that is supremo, in 1940.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
nationalheraldindia.com | Purushottam Agrawal
Mohan Bhagwat’s attack was couched in generalities but if you read the RSS code right, the downsizing message was quite clearRSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent speech in Nagpur is probably the first dressing-down Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP colleagues have received from their parent organisation.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Siddarth Muralidharan |Purushottam Agrawal |Vaishna Roy |Ayesha Minhaz
On November 6, 2017, Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) president and the then Leader of Opposition in Andhra Pradesh, Jagan Mohan Reddy, embarked on his 3,000-km “Praja Sankalpa Yatra” from his native Idupulapaya in Kadapa district. The village was also where his father and former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was laid to rest in September 2009 following his death in a helicopter accident.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Purushottam Agrawal |Vaishna Roy |Ayesha Minhaz
Every Hindu house mounted a saffron flag and welcomed Ram, said a young BJP leader from Amalapuram in Andhra Pradesh, speaking about the pran pratishtha celebrations in his town on January 22. A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member since childhood, he believes that the Ram temple issue gives the Sangh, its affiliate organisations, and the BJP in Andhra Pradesh a much-needed morale boost.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Purushottam Agrawal |Vaishna Roy
In the century-old trajectory of the growth of Hindutva in India, Karnataka has been a crucial outpost and is heralded as BJP’s “gateway” to south India. When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, some members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh were arrested in coastal Karnataka showing the early popular support Hindu communalism had in the Kannada-speaking region.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Kunal Purohit |Purushottam Agrawal |Vaishna Roy
For the last decade, we have seen visible manifestations of communalism from political players—orchestrated riots, hate speeches, dog-whistling by leaders (remember when the Prime Minister asked us to identify protesters by the clothes they wear?) But 2023 challenged this notion—hate no longer had to be delivered to us. We did not need speeches, nor did we need tactful, sublime nods.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Purushottam Agrawal |Vaishna Roy |Sharda Ugra
The word “challenger” in sport usually refers to an upcoming, somewhat less-decorated competitor who takes on a much stronger and established champion. In men’s professional tennis, the tournament rung below the big-money Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour events is called the Challenger Tour. From 2001 to 2014, hockey ran a FIH Champions Challenge event held between teams outside the world’s top six.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Purushottam Agrawal |Vaishna Roy |Suryapratim Roy
The Constitution was challenged in 2023 for being “colonial” and outdated. One of these challenges was explicit, with a call to action: the claim that the Constitution needs to be rewritten. The other was implicit: a demonstration of how the Constitution is colonial. If the Constitution is colonial and/or past its expiry date, then were all the Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters misguided when they used the Preamble to protest?
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Purushottam Agrawal
Published : Feb 06, 2024 14:44 IST - 1 MIN READ A demagogue’s power is in knowing how to change a gathering from a crowd to a mob. Then, to give the mob an enemy. We ask why a people would willingly give an autocrat untrammelled power over their lives. Because when the people become a mob, they do not want good government, all they want, to quote Greenblatt, is “permission to break the rules”, to destroy, to slake their thirst for blood. In 2023, that permission was given. Read the full story here.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Purushottam Agrawal |Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran
Chandrayaan-3’s success is a landmark achievement not only in the history of ISRO but in the history of missions to the moon internationally. It is remarkable on two counts. One, while India may be only the fourth country to land successfully on the moon, it is the first to land near the lunar South Polar region at about 70° latitude, roughly 600 km from the lunar South Pole.
