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• India: Multiple offensives of the Hindu Right - social, cultural fronts

  7 February, by c-info
  From: Frontline, 11 February 2012COVER STORYWar by other meansVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNANIn a shift in strategy, the Sangh Parivar resorts to multiple offensives on the social and cultural fronts.KIRAN BAKALERSS volunteers ata three-day camp, Hindu Shakti Sangam, from January 27 to 29 at Tarihal near Hubli in north Karnataka.THE design of the array of political, social and religious outfits in the

  

  
  

• Communalism in School curriculum via Sangh Parivar's “Indianisation reforms”

  7 February, by c-info
  From: Frontline, 11 February 2012Communal curriculumVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNANThe Sangh Parivar is systematically following its “Indianisation reforms” in schools run by its affiliates.SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFPA BJP leader holds a copy of the Bhagvad Gita. In November 2011, the BJP governments in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka introduced lessons on the Bhagvad Gita in schools.THE attempts of the Rashtriya

  

  
  

• Sangh Parivar resorts to multiple offensives on the social and cultural fronts

  7 February, by c-info
  From: Frontline, 11 February 2012War by other meansVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNANIn a shift in strategy, the Sangh Parivar resorts to multiple offensives on the social and cultural fronts.KIRAN BAKALERSS volunteers ata three-day camp, Hindu Shakti Sangam, from January 27 to 29 at Tarihal near Hubli in north Karnataka.THE design of the array of political, social and religious outfits in the Rashtriya

  

  
  

• Why the opposwition to use of Urdu in FIR's a problem?

  5 February, by c-info
  From: The Times of IndiaUse of Urdu In FIRs Baffles Courts, commonersSukhbir Siwach & Hina Rohatki, TNN | Feb 5, 2012, 05.13PM ISTCHANDIGARH: Sounds like a line from a ghazal? It's something more prosaic-these lines are a part of an FIR at a police station in Panchkula district. It means: At this time, the police station's daily diary register number 2 records that the complainant was present at

  

  
  

• Hindutva Politics and The Holy Cow

  5 February, by c-info
  The politics of the holy cowBy Manoj Joshi4th February 2012It should be no surprise that in India, the cow and politics go hand in hand.The Sangh Parivar's first move to mobilise the 'masses' came through the anti-cow slaughter movement of 1966.The vehicle was the then newly created Vishwa Hindu Parishad. But, the movement did not yield any political dividend, despite the unexpected, or really

  

  
  

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