"In the backdrop of Rahul Gandhi equating the RSS with banned SIMI, senior BJP leader LK Advani today came to the defence of the saffron outfit. In the backdrop of Rahul Gandhi equating the RSS with banned SIMI, senior BJP leader LK Advani today came to the defence of the saffron outfit lauding its role during the freedom struggle. "I don't think any institution has influenced our society more than the RSS and Nanaji Deshmukh was one of the key motivators during the freedom struggle and post-Independence who had a great influence on people ", Advani said..."
"In 1965, a book titled Vedic Mathematics was published in English. Since then, the subject has become an industry that shows no sign of diminishing. In its latest manifestation, parents who know no better are shelling out serious money in the hope that their children will become scientific geniuses. They really shouldn’t bother. The subject amounts to nothing more than a few cheap parlour tricks, and there is nothing Vedic about it. But the story of how it came to be makes for a fantastical tale.
"Investigations into Sanathan Sanstha's role in Friday's blast in Margao have revealed the right-wing Hindu group's involvement in recent communal riots in Maharashtra. Maharasthra Police hav revealed that four members of this group were arrested during the riots in Sangli and Miraj, while travelling in a Maruti van with swords, sticks and chains. They were been charged for possessing arms and inciting communal violence. Friday night's blast in south Goa's Margao town brought Sanatan Sanstha to centrestage.
"Teaching is central to the whole Hindu nationalist enterprise. At its core, the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, lit. ‘National Volunteers Organization’) itself, with its own shikshaks and bauddhiks (teachers, intellectual sessions) in neighborhood shakhas (branches) defines its noiseless but assiduous method as a long-term strategy of ‘going to classes rather than to the masses’. Many RSS affiliates too, on different fronts – religious, tribal, etc.
"A BJP leader from Ajnala, Ashok Taneja, was on Wednesday booked by the police for allegedly raping his 20-year-old daughter for the past eight years. A university student, his daughter has alleged in her complaint that her father has been sexually assaulting her for the past eight years and even threatened to kill her if she disclosed the matter to anyone. The victim has stated in her complaint that she finally mustered enough courage to tell her mother. Her maternal family living in Amritsar then came to know about the alleged rape of the girl, said the police.
"Watch this scene: SAR Geelani is invited to participate in a seminar on ‘Communalism, Fascism and Democracy, Rhetoric and Reality’ at Delhi University. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)’s goons – about 50 students – do what they are best at: vandalise the venue, hurl abuses and even spit on him. Geelani had not picked up a loudspeaker and started screaming in the street corners to get people all charged up. This was within the confines of a university conference room and a serious discussion.
"The Supreme Court on Tuesday severely reprimanded the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat for slapping a sedition case against a senior journalist. The apex court protected sociologist and author, Ashis Nandy from being arrested by the Gujurat Police. The senior journalist had moved the Supreme Court apprehending his arrest. Nandy faces criminal charges for allegedly promoting enmity between groups in the society through his analytical article on the 2007 Gujarat poll outcome.
"Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists ransacked the office of Delhi University’s History Department head S.Z.H. Jafri on Monday protesting against certain portions of the B.A. History (Honours) syllabus. The activists allegedly manhandled Prof. Jafri and hurled abuses at him before vandalising the office. They also allegedly threw stones into classrooms and broke doors, windows and furniture of the Department on the North Campus. Some groups have raised objections to inclusion of an essay by scholar A.K.
"Less than a year after Professor Sabharwal's was allegedly murdered by students of Ram Madhav college in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain, another similar has been reported from the city. Agitating members of the BJP-affiliated ABVP beat up the Principal of the city’s Maharaja College, Ashish Mehta, on Tuesday for allegedly taking action against students caught cheating in an exam. “They barged in and broke furniture in my room. They asked me to allow whatever their friends wanted to do. When I refused, they locked the room and beat me up,” recalls Mehta.
"Adolf Hitler was a brilliant propagandist. Narendra Modi too believes in the power of image. Which is probably why the chief minister hired a US lobbying firm which has serviced clients like former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and President-for-life of Kazakhstan Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev. This Washington-based firm, Apco Worldwide, was hired by Modi sometime in August this year, in the run-up to an important Assembly election, to improve his image before the world community.
