Is that so? According to Savarkar, India rightfully belongs only to Hindus whose fatherland pitrubhoomi and holy land punyabhoomi are located within its geographical boundary. On the face of it, your recent statements sound like good news, Bhagwatji.
But when you claim that this is exactly what the RSS has stood for since its birth, the claim defies both reason and lived experience. You maintain that the solution to the problem of Hindu-Muslim conflict lies in dialogue, not discord. You also rightly maintain that polite conversation will not do, what is needed is honest talk. Well said, Bhagwatji. Allow me then the right to some khari khari baat. The claim that what you say now is what the RSS has always stood for is no honest talk.
With the English advent, quarrels recommenced. Do people become enemies because they change their religion? Is the God of the Mohammedan different from the God of the Hindu?
Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause of quarrelling? Where are we standing today? Khwaja Iftikhar Ahmed, Sudheendra Kulkarni and Mohan Bhagwat are talking at a level that ignores the deeper causes of the violence. The discord being witnessed is not among the religious communities. It is a conflict between Indian nationalism on one side and Hindu nationalism on the other.
In the spirit of dialogue for which Bhagwat called, what is missing is an initiative to undo the hate that has been propagated so far. The age-old agenda of RSS remains the same. Share your perspective on this article with a post on ScrollStack, and send it to your followers. Contribute Now.
A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh event in Allahabad. Lens of religion Before the Partition, if there was Mohammad Ali Jinnah wanting to a separate country for Muslims, Pakistan, there was also Allah Baksh who organised a massive convention in Delhi to oppose this demand. Mohan Bhagwat releasing Khwaja Ahmed's book July 4.
Ahmed is on Bhagwat's right. Photo credit: Rashtriya Muslim Manch It is very important to understand the roots of origin of streams that prefix their nationalism with religion. Dialogue on nationalism What is happening or is being orchestrated is the logical outcome of the seeds of indoctrination that have been sown over a period of time.
Changing times In the spirit of dialogue for which Bhagwat called, what is missing is an initiative to undo the hate that has been propagated so far. As a final result of the poison, the country had to suffer the sacrifice of the valuable life of Gandhiji.
Even an iota of sympathy of the government or of the people no more remained for the RSS. In fact the opposition grew. Under these conditions it became inevitable for the government to take action against the RSS.
Under the circumstances, no evidence could be found to prove that Godse was a continuing member of the RSS. Nonetheless, Gopal Godse, brother of Nathuram who was also arrested as a co-conspirator and sentenced to imprisonment, said in an interview with Frontline magazine , 30 years after his release from prison, that Nathuram had never quit the RSS and had lied in the courts.
Nathuram, Dattatreya, myself and Govind. You can say we grew up in the RSS rather than in our home. It was like a family to us. Nathuram has said in his statement that he left the RSS. But he did not leave the RSS. In the same interview with Frontline , Gopal Godse went on to accuse L. But you do not disown him.
Four months later, after the drafting committee had completed the process of drafting the constitution, the RSS raised an objection in an article in the Organiser, published on November 30, But to our constitutional pundits that means nothing.
The campaign of the RSS to implement the Manusmriti instead of the constitution continued well into the following year, even after the the constitution was officially adopted by the country.
Even an unorthodox Hindu feels himself bound at least in some matters by the rules contained in the Smritis and he feels powerless to give up altogether his adherence to them. Are they to be branded as traitors? No Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh functionary interviewed for this article seemed to want to contemplate the possibility of karyakartas cutting corners at best, or violating laws at worst.
The parents just miss their children who are in hostel, so they are upset. It will pass. The senior Vidya Bharti member wrung his hands irately. Meanwhile, action has been taken against the messenger.
While BJP members lodged a police complaint against Dixit and Outlook , The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, under the central government, has also reportedly to threatened to sack Runumi Gogoi, the chairperson of Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, unless she changed her report on the 31 girls. As for imparting mainstream Hindu practises to tribals, many Sangh members asked how this was wrong or exploitative.
Some insisted that animist forest dwellers are the original Hindus and must be brought into the mainstream fold. Others said adivasis needed to be protected from Christian missionaries and Naxals.
Zealous, committed karyakartas and pracharikas teach and run schools, they are often alumni themselves, and convinced of their role in the greater purpose of educating the underprivileged, from any religion or caste. This seva , however, might come packaged with other less inclusive beliefs, held with equal conviction, like attitudes to Muslims on a spectrum from fear to hate, and violent competition with Christian missionaries.
In an event of the Akhil Bharatiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram held in Ahmedabad in May, the Gujarat tribal development minister claimed, to much applause, that the BJP government had prevented tribals from religious conversion.
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