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Some critics like Ramchandra Shukla described Kabir as lowly and rustic and thus pandered to the anger seething within them. Ramvilas is sailing in the same boat. He is already lying prostrate before Tulsi. In his view, “Kabir is a great Bhakta” but Tulsidas is an erudite poet – so erudite that he has no equal, writes Kanwal Bharti

Arjak Sangh’s founder Mahamana Ramswaroop Verma had written to the then president V.V. Giri and prime minister Indira Gandhi opposing official celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the writing of Ramcharitmanas. He firmly believed that both Ram and Ramayan were crafted by the Brahmins to perpetuate their domination and to keep Dalitbahujans on a lower rung 

Kabir’s uniqueness is evident in his treatment of the ‘questions of caste’. Kabir opposes the caste system but copiously refers to the caste-based social structure. He rejects the idea of caste-based occupations but alludes to them metaphorically in his devotional poems, writes Kamlesh Verma

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:

A genre of ballads originally sung by a Dalit community was a source of inspiration to Shivaji Maharaj as he fought wars and today, Sambhaji uses it to spread Ambedkarite-Marxist ideology