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I didn’t know much about RSS until a few years ago, beyond what it is caricatured to be in the mainstream media outlets. However, the intense dislike towards RSS from congress and communist parties made me learn more about their ideology and social work. I now have healthy respect for what they stand for. I hope they will continue to thrive and help keep the works of the ancient Indian civilization alive.
Dear RJ, RSS doesn’t even accept the tricolor, they are opposed to India’s constitution! RSS is most active in the Hindi belt, where we have large numbers of our Muslim brethren who are BORN & BROUGHT UP here — they haven’t come from anywhere outside. They have not “converted” to Islam, they are “born” into Islam. The man who converted to Islam died 400 years ago! If an infant grows up thinking of his adoptive parents as its real parents, and when he is grown up his “biological parents” emerge out of the blue and start dragging him to “ghar wapasi”, won’t it be outright CRUEL??! Just think about it. RSS, now emboldened by Modi-Shah edition of BJP are spreading confusion and violence in our society. Its very bad for our country’s future as one united entity.
You seem to be greatly affected by demonitisation and other Good measures the BJP govt has initiated. You try to spread only hate because Modi’s voice is heard louder.
Personally I have seen Hindus, Christians, Muslims , Sikhs attending , participating in all activities in Sangh Sakhas in equal basis, so to say Proof is in the Pudding, eat and find for yourself the true teaching of Sangh
Why lie ?? Everyone knows RSS’s thoughts on non-Hindu Indians.
Because it is not honestly revealed by them and their followers, it is also called – hidden agenda
Heading into the future, greater acceptance of science and technology, modern ideas around business and the economy are required. India cannot afford to fall back, mired in superstition, religious orthodoxy, sluggish growth. These things go beyond culture, but the RSS is now firmly embedded in governance and politics, where these decisions are made. 2. Without getting into a semantic debate on how one should define a Hindu, 180 million Muslims are Indians but they are not Hindus. Nor is the much smaller Christian minority. Whether one sees Hindutva as a religious or a national construct, the rights and freedoms, also the security and sense of belonging the minorities have always enjoyed, must continue to be respected. May the next century of the RSS be congruent with the rise of an India that gives all its citizens a much better life.
There is a song in Hindi, “ghoonghat ke paht khol ri tohe piya milenge”. This line is also adopted by religious Hindus as to mean, “peel the layers of ignorance and you will meet your beloved (or God, or Truth, etc.)”
Makarand Paranjape is an erudite scholar, but he hasn’t forgotten how to write essays in school-boy mode. This paean to Mohan Bhagwat is an example of his nostalgic trip to the school bench.
Mohan Bhagwat has done no “mainstreaming” of the RSS or Hinduism, he hasn’t internationalized Hindutva. If you “peel the layers of ignorance” this is the TRUTH you will see:
“Narendra Modi captured the imagination and dreams of a vast population of Indians who had been suffocating on poverty, who had been watching TV serials day in and day out and through which had been EXPOSED to good things that money can buy, but who had no surplus monies of their own to buy those good things. In came Narendra Modi with REPEATED talks of 15 lakh rupees in each account… So persistent was the repetition that if someone were to Google search his speeches, he must have mentioned this promise more than 20-30 times. A poor man wants to believe such a promise, and the repetitions made him convinced about it, and about Modi.
“Thus, in plain words a CRUEL lie was made to look real, and Narendra Modi came to power. “Achhe din aane waale hain, amma!” was a repeated ad that was played out before 2014 elections.”
This is the crux of the whole story, this is exactly how Narendra Modi and the BJP came to power. By DECEIT I would say, because they themselves disowned the 14-lakhs bit as a mere “jumla” or wisecrack after coming to power.
And this is how the Hindutva bandwagon has gotten on a roll in last five years, Dear Makarand. Mohan Bhagwat has nothing to do with it. He’s a nice man, I agree with you, but not shy of words like Laxman’s common man. You meet the latter in cramped railway compartments and not on flower-decked 100 foot wide daises.
Well, personally I am of the view that Mohan Bhagwat with his drooping mustache resembles the fishmonger Unhygienix from the Asterix comics series and not the legendary cartoonist R K Laxman’s Common Man!
A veterinarian is a failed MBBS. Neither his subject nor politics is his strong suit.
I didn’t know much about RSS until a few years ago, beyond what it is caricatured to be in the mainstream media outlets. However, the intense dislike towards RSS from congress and communist parties made me learn more about their ideology and social work. I now have healthy respect for what they stand for. I hope they will continue to thrive and help keep the works of the ancient Indian civilization alive.
Dear RJ, RSS doesn’t even accept the tricolor, they are opposed to India’s constitution! RSS is most active in the Hindi belt, where we have large numbers of our Muslim brethren who are BORN & BROUGHT UP here — they haven’t come from anywhere outside. They have not “converted” to Islam, they are “born” into Islam. The man who converted to Islam died 400 years ago! If an infant grows up thinking of his adoptive parents as its real parents, and when he is grown up his “biological parents” emerge out of the blue and start dragging him to “ghar wapasi”, won’t it be outright CRUEL??! Just think about it. RSS, now emboldened by Modi-Shah edition of BJP are spreading confusion and violence in our society. Its very bad for our country’s future as one united entity.
You seem to be greatly affected by demonitisation and other Good measures the BJP govt has initiated. You try to spread only hate because Modi’s voice is heard louder.
Personally I have seen Hindus, Christians, Muslims , Sikhs attending , participating in all activities in Sangh Sakhas in equal basis, so to say Proof is in the Pudding, eat and find for yourself the true teaching of Sangh
Why lie ?? Everyone knows RSS’s thoughts on non-Hindu Indians.
Because it is not honestly revealed by them and their followers, it is also called – hidden agenda
Heading into the future, greater acceptance of science and technology, modern ideas around business and the economy are required. India cannot afford to fall back, mired in superstition, religious orthodoxy, sluggish growth. These things go beyond culture, but the RSS is now firmly embedded in governance and politics, where these decisions are made. 2. Without getting into a semantic debate on how one should define a Hindu, 180 million Muslims are Indians but they are not Hindus. Nor is the much smaller Christian minority. Whether one sees Hindutva as a religious or a national construct, the rights and freedoms, also the security and sense of belonging the minorities have always enjoyed, must continue to be respected. May the next century of the RSS be congruent with the rise of an India that gives all its citizens a much better life.
There is a song in Hindi, “ghoonghat ke paht khol ri tohe piya milenge”. This line is also adopted by religious Hindus as to mean, “peel the layers of ignorance and you will meet your beloved (or God, or Truth, etc.)”
Makarand Paranjape is an erudite scholar, but he hasn’t forgotten how to write essays in school-boy mode. This paean to Mohan Bhagwat is an example of his nostalgic trip to the school bench.
Mohan Bhagwat has done no “mainstreaming” of the RSS or Hinduism, he hasn’t internationalized Hindutva. If you “peel the layers of ignorance” this is the TRUTH you will see:
“Narendra Modi captured the imagination and dreams of a vast population of Indians who had been suffocating on poverty, who had been watching TV serials day in and day out and through which had been EXPOSED to good things that money can buy, but who had no surplus monies of their own to buy those good things. In came Narendra Modi with REPEATED talks of 15 lakh rupees in each account… So persistent was the repetition that if someone were to Google search his speeches, he must have mentioned this promise more than 20-30 times. A poor man wants to believe such a promise, and the repetitions made him convinced about it, and about Modi.
“Thus, in plain words a CRUEL lie was made to look real, and Narendra Modi came to power. “Achhe din aane waale hain, amma!” was a repeated ad that was played out before 2014 elections.”
This is the crux of the whole story, this is exactly how Narendra Modi and the BJP came to power. By DECEIT I would say, because they themselves disowned the 14-lakhs bit as a mere “jumla” or wisecrack after coming to power.
And this is how the Hindutva bandwagon has gotten on a roll in last five years, Dear Makarand. Mohan Bhagwat has nothing to do with it. He’s a nice man, I agree with you, but not shy of words like Laxman’s common man. You meet the latter in cramped railway compartments and not on flower-decked 100 foot wide daises.
Fantastic !!
Thanks!
Spot on.
Well, personally I am of the view that Mohan Bhagwat with his drooping mustache resembles the fishmonger Unhygienix from the Asterix comics series and not the legendary cartoonist R K Laxman’s Common Man!