"New Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing criticism for remaining silent about incidents deemed anti-Muslim in the past week, underscoring fears that his Hindu nationalist followers will upset religious relations in the multi-faith nation... Footage emerged this week of a radical Hindu party lawmaker trying to force food into the mouth of a Muslim caterer. Separately, a BJP politician questioned the national identity of an Indian Muslim tennis star, while an ally of the prime minister said India could become a Hindu nation under Modi.
"Once Dr Radhakrishnan went for a dinner. There was a Briton at the event who said, “We are very dear to God.” Radhakrishnan laughed and told the gathering, “Friends, one day God felt like making rotis. When he was cooking the rotis, the first one was cooked less and the English were born. The second one stayed longer on the fire and the Negroes were born. Alert after His first two mistakes, when God went on to cook the third roti, it came out just right and as a result Indians were born.”—Page 8, Prernadeep -3. (Dr Radhakrishnan was the second president of India.)
"To have schools all over India celebrate a ‘Sanskrit Week’ by decree—that couldn’t have been passed off as an innocuous, joyful thing in the best of times. It becomes doubly dicey at this juncture. The fiat comes from the ‘autonomous’ CBSE, a thin veil. The chain of causation, everyone knows, goes back to the party in power—and how it casts everything in an idiom of Reconquest troubles the waters by definition...
'What do Ajit Doval, Nripendra Misra and PK Misra have in common? Of course, they are top bureaucrats whom Narendra Modi handpicked to run his team. There is another common factor. They all hail from New Delhi-based think-tank Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF).
Former IB director Ajit Doval was steering the ship at VIF as founder-director before he was appointed as Modi’s National Security Adviser. He was advising Modi even before the government was formed. In fact, it was Doval who came up with the idea of inviting South Asian leaders to Modi’s oath-taking ceremony.
"Dinanath Batra, author who was responsible for the pulping of American scholar Wendy Doniger’s book, has been prescribed compulsory reading in Gujarat schools. The State government has issued a circular dated June 30 for six of Dr. Batra’s books to all 42,000 primary and secondary schools in the State, Gujarat Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, told The Hindu. A local daily reported that Mr.
' Goa Minister for Cooperation Deepak Dhavlikar belonging to the regional outfit Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), an alliance partner of Bharatiya Janata Party, on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be able to make India a Hindu State in the future if he got unstinted and full support and backing from “all of us”. Mr. Dhavlikar was speaking in the State Legislative Assembly supporting a congratulatory motion tabled by two ruling BJP MLAs on Thursday, the third day of monsoon session of the Assembly, congratulating Mr.
"Days after his minister brother triggered a controversy by demanding a ban on wearing bikinis on Goa's beaches, cooperation minister Dipak Dhavalikar today appeared to have waded into another, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi will develop India into a Hindu nation. "I am confident that under the leadership of Modiji, India will develop into a Hindu nation. Prime Minister will work in this regard is what I feel," he said while speaking in state assembly on a motion congratulating Modi on BJP's electoral victory..."
Against the backdrop of killing of an army jawan in firing from across the border at the Line of Control, yoga guru Ramdev on Wednesday said said Pakistan should be taught a lesson, adding that the country would stand by whatever steps Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes.
"A sizeable number of protesters held a rally in support of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip at Jantar Mantar here on Sunday. Led by Right-wing outfit Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS), the group demanded that India back Israel as it has been a “time tested” ally. “Be it the 1971 war or Kargil war, Israel has supported us. Now we urge the Indian government to show its support for Israel inside Parliament. They are an important ally of ours,” said BSKS chief Tajinder Singh Bagga. Mr.
"Well before Narendra Modi’s advent, before his acolyte Manohar Parrikar could become chief minister in 1994, Hindu fundamentalists have viewed Goa’s Catholics as an impediment to their larger aim of ‘Bharat’ becoming a ‘Hindu nation’. Thanks to the asinine comments of Goa’s PWD minister Sudhin Dhavalikar urging bikinis be banned and pubs closed down, it helps to revisit extremist fears—to see, if nothing else, whether women visitors to the beach will choose to show him a thing or two.
