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There is nothing, nothing which can persuade us to return to our villages. They burned and looted our homes: We could barely save our lives, as we desperately ran with our children in our arms and just the clothes we were wearing. What is there for us to return to?’ Words I heard over and over again in a harrowing journey through the districts of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli, exactly a year after a storm of hate overnight tore this peaceful countryside apart.

Fascism’s many faces continue to threaten societies by dividing the people into “we” and “they” and by implanting a sense of historic wrong waiting for the mass upsurge to right them. Unlike earlier fascists, there is no stated policy to kill, deport or enslave entire races and populations that are considered inferior, and to repopulate the land with superior people. But the same desired result of a racially homogeneous society that avoids the intermixing of superior peoples and those deemed to be part of inferior races is still sought. The holy men representing religious fundamentalism appear more zealous than extreme far-right parties.

’Hindu Nationalism in the US: A Report on Non-profit Groups’, New Age Weekly, August 31- September 6, 2014 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B91QOZ3BhEwELUVjdDZxSXhNODA/edit
A report on the Hindu nationalist circuit in the US http://communalism.blogspot.in/2014/07/a-report-on-hindu-nationalist-circuit.html
Hindutva groups active in US, aiding Indian RSS through funds http://www.sahilonline.org/english/newsDetails.php?cid=1&nid=25991
New report shows how Hindutva groups operate in (…)

Fali S. Nariman delivered the 7th Annual Lecture of National Commission of Minorites, Friday, 12th September, 2014 at the constitution club in New Delhi

An account from Srinagar by Basharat Peer, the noted journalist and writer in a major national daily in India.