South Asia Citizens Web

Finish off the deshdrohi (traitor)! This is the BJP’s new war cry. And the Opposition is reportedly being put on the defensive in the small towns of Uttar Pradesh. This is dangerous, primarily because the logical conclusion of jingoism is war.

As a nation, we are overly blessed with a surfeit of deras, maths, ashrams and their cultic “masters” — and, each one seeks to bend the authority to his or her holy advantage. Baba Ramdev and Sri Sri Shankar have become more visible — some would say have become an eyesore — only because of a in-your-face flaunting of their political connections.

We are concerned about the leak in the Primary Heat Transfer System (PHTS) of Unit-1 of the Kakrapar Nuclear Power Station in Gujarat.

Indian universities are at a crossroads because the Hindutva project of education, as defined and interpreted by the ideologues of the Sangh Parivar, cannot be pursued under the present system. For the Government, education is an instrument of Hinduisation of society & polity.

see also from the sacw archive:
The Political Culture of Fascism by Jairus Banaji (sacw.net - Sept. 2002) http://www.sacw.net/2002/BanajiSept02.html