By Badri Raina, ZNet, Jan 3, 2010
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“Genius: a person who has a strong influence upon one for good or ill.”
(Advanced Oxford Dictionary)
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All of the year gone by, India’s corporate classes—in sundry areas of material control, including the media—have been pushing and prodding the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) to return from the dumps to health and vigour. Editorially this Hindu right-wing formation has been reminded how the nation cannot do without them.
Alas, at the end of it all, its unedifying, even if highly diverting, internal squabbles have been for now set to right, not by its own autonomous political exertions, but per diktat of the RSS—a fascist outfit wholly extraneous to the Constitutional scheme of the Republic.
Brushing aside the many hopefuls within the BJP, Nitin Gadkari, a self-confessed RSS devotee who has never yet won an election to an assembly, not to speak of the parliament, has been installed as President of the BJP vide explicit decree of the RSS.
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A Future India Must Do Without
By Badri Raina, ZNet, Jan 3, 2010
Badri Raina’s ZSpace Page
“Genius: a person who has a strong influence upon one for good or ill.”
(Advanced Oxford Dictionary)
I
All of the year gone by, India’s corporate classes—in sundry areas of material control, including the media—have been pushing and prodding the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) to return from the dumps to health and vigour. Editorially this Hindu right-wing formation has been reminded how the nation cannot do without them.
Alas, at the end of it all, its unedifying, even if highly diverting, internal squabbles have been for now set to right, not by its own autonomous political exertions, but per diktat of the RSS—a fascist outfit wholly extraneous to the Constitutional scheme of the Republic.
Brushing aside the many hopefuls within the BJP, Nitin Gadkari, a self-confessed RSS devotee who has never yet won an election to an assembly, not to speak of the parliament, has been installed as President of the BJP vide explicit decree of the RSS.
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Tags: "cultural nationalism", Badri Raina, Bhartiya Janata Party, Dalits, India, MP Ahsan Jaffri, Muslims, Narendra Modi, Nitin Gadkari, RSS fascists
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