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The calendar has turned one more page. The year 2018 has bid goodbye to us and we are welcoming 2019. But I am more interested in talking about the past, as that is the foundation on which our future will be built. And, here too, I would like to review the year gone by, not from a personal perspective but from a national perspective

Hindutva is the central idea of RSS’s ideology. The Hindu religion, wherein women are perceived merely as objects of gratification at the service of  men, characterizes Sita, Anusuya and Padmini as superior and divine whereas women like Surpnakha, Holika and Tadka are branded as ‘Rakshasi’ and ‘Kulta’.What is the Sangh’s woman discourse? Siddharth explores:

Birendra Yadav was a student of journalism at the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University, Bhopal, in the Nineties – when Indian journalism started undergoing a change. He recalls his days as an OBC student, the casteism, regionalism and RSS-brand journalism that prevailed in the institution and his personal struggles

The good news is that Dalits are standing up to this reign of terror. Gujarat’s Dalits have left dead cows at a number of district headquarters and told the officials to dispose of the carcasses because their people are being beaten up openly. This is a good start to such resistance

Describing the government’s newfound reverence for Dr Ambedkar as fake, Tejpal Singh ‘Tej’ argues that having demolished Ambedkar’s Dadar house, the Sangh is out to destroy his ideology as well

The Sangh Parivar had no problem with this politics of “Hindu social justice” because it could see that Muslim votes were being used to politically strengthen the weaker sections of Hindus that were reaping the benefits of reservations