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A social media account that promotes Hindu supremacy and fear mongering

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 07:41:51 +0000

An Instagram account called @Sanatandharmaarth posts videos of J Sai Deepak and Anand Ranganathan who speak in crisp impeccable English appealing to the similar audiences who get wowed with such oratory skills. The videos that are posted are not hate speeches. They are mainly proud Hindu men, disseminating their Hindu pride in crisp language and such a convincing manner that a person with an easy going or lenient point of view can eventually turn into a hardliner by listening to them.

J Sai Deepak is a lawyer and is often called to speak at events where he has most popularly spoken about the Sabarimala case and also protests around the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA). He does not advocate religious nationalism but is one speck in the wheel towards such radical thoughts as he generally promotes protection of Hindu religious institutions and fear mongering about how Hindus despite being the majority in India are indeed the victims in many aspects. He also speaks about illegal migration, demographic inversion and so on.

In one such video posted by @Sanatandharmaarth J Sai Deepak is questioning why Hindus have the onus of maintaining peace in the country. He says that Hindus do not have a greater responsibility to maintain peace since they have suffered at the hands of colonisers and invaders. He also speaks about how Hindus “sacrificed 1/3rd of their land for creating Pakistan and Bangladesh. “What more is expected of this community,” he questions. Certainly Indians suffered at the hands of imperialists but India even then consisted of all religions that exist today and he makes it sound like only Hindus suffered and implying that only Hindus fought for freedom.

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He also speaks about the caste system and disagrees with Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar who held an opinion that to do away with caste discrimination against Dalits, the entire caste system needs to be subverted. He disagrees with the view that one has to adhere to Babasaheb’s views to fight against caste, thus discrediting his views on caste and Babasaheb’s struggles for mitigating the caste system.

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Some of these videos also want to do away with empathy towards religious minorities. While they will not directly speak against them, they will try to drive the point that minorities are appeased by the government by giving extra benefits while the majority community has largely been ignored historically.

In this video Anand Ranganathan cites data to show that even if Muslims comprise only 14.2% of the population, their share in beneficiaries of government schemes is high.

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The idea is to drive home the point that even the BJP is not doing enough for the Hindus and that the people should raise questions to the BJP why it is appeasing the minorities by having schemes to benefit them.

Further, in one video, Ranganathan sympathised with Nupur Sharma who was widely criticised for her views on Prophet Mohammad and was suspended from BJP. Pointing to Rehmani sitting next to him, he said, “This man is safe and sound and roaming freely and can speak his mind. A Year ago with whom he debated, that woman was confined to her house. This is our country. Those who say there is no democracy should remember that Rehmani Sir is safe and sound and here with me. Remember that. but the poor woman (Nupur Sharma) who only quoted some scriptures, her life is ruined.”

Portraying Hindus as victims and completely doing away with the multitude of injustices meted out to the minorities, is the main theme of these speakers and the Instagram account in question highlights snippets of these videos which does help their “Sanatan Dharma”.

These men have a clout among the intellectual class, those who equate crisp English speaking with great knowledge and also among the youth who maintain a similar mindset and whose minds can be easily influenced by such talks. The idea of Hindu supremacism is often promoted and at the same time how this glory has been lost due to the ruling dispensation favouring the minorities is also a point that is often propagated.

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Had the NIA investigated the Malegaon Blasts Case properly, Dr Dabholkar & Pansare Murders could have been prevented: Dr Hamid Dabholar

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:14:05 +0000

The first rationalist to be killed, allegedly and in all likelihood by the Sanathan Sanstha was Narayan Dabholkar, while on a morning walk in Pune, near the Omkreshwar temple, shot dead at point blank range.

Dr Hamid Dabholkar, son of Dr Narendra Dabholkar, psychiatrist and state secretary of Maharashtra Andhashradha Nirmulan Samiti (ANIS), today, spoke once again to Mumbai Mirror’s Alka Dhupkar after prime accused Dr Virendra Tawde's wife Nidhi's revelation that she and her husband were routinely administered psychotropic drugs in Sanatan Sanstha's Panvel Ashram.

Of the detailed interview which may be read here, this question is pertinent

Q. Are you satisfied with the NIA investigation?

In the first place, had the NIA investigated the Madgaon bomb blast case in Goa properly, Dr Dabholkar and Pansare murders could have been prevented. From both chargesheets, it is clear that Sarang Akolkar, and Vinay Pawar, both of whom are absconding from the same time, are charged as prime executors.

The appeal against the Madgaon bomb blast case order is pending for two and half years in the higher court. So that should be fast tracked. All these agencies India's top two investigating agencies and the SIT, should launch a joint initi ative to trace these absconding accused. Till the time they are free, they will remain a threat to free thinkers and rationalists in the society. However, efforts done by CBI and SIT have definitely led us a couple of steps forward and now the conspiracy behind the two murders is out in the public domain.

This reply more than anything else reveals the non-coordination at best, and sinister collusion at worst, between India’s premier investigating agencies on issues of investigating terror cases. Especially when outfits with linkages to the extreme Hindu right have been identified. The delay in the appeal to the judgement in the Malegaon blasts case is also long overdue.

How can there be faith in the system if justice is not seen to be done?

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The CBI’s Scotland Yard ‘Lie’- Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi murders reports Mumbai Mirror

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:11:42 +0000

Alka Dhupkar and Divyesh Singh, journalists with the Mumbai mirror have today reported the CBI’s ‘lie’ in misinforming the Court that it is actually awaiting Scotland Yard Reports. The agency investigating the murders of the rationalists has been maintaining that it is awaiting reports from UK when it emerges that they are awaiting permission to send it in the first place

The Central Bureau of In vestigation (CBI), which is probing the murder cases of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi, has so far been maintaining in court that they are awaiting ballistic reports from New Scotland Yard in England to take the case further. As it turns out, they are awaiting permission to send the samples in the first place.

The newspaper reports that, in April 2016, the CBI asked permission from UK authorities to send samples of recovered cartridges, bullets, weapons and lead found on the bodies of murdered rationalists, Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi to British forensic scientists for ballistic analysis as reports from Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Kalina and FSL, Bengaluru were contradictory.

On April 29, 2016, CBI filed an application before the Judicial Magistrate Court, Pune seeking permission to send the material objects of Dabholkar murder case to forensic scientists of New Scotland Yard at United Kingdom. In the application, CBI said that, “In view of discrepancies between the ballistic opinion of FSL Bengaluru and FSL Kalina (Mumbai), a second forensic (ballistic) opinion from forensic science lab of New Scotland Yard police at United Kingdom (UK) is required on the material objects of Dr Dabholkar murder case and Govind Pansare murder case.“

The rest of the article may be read here

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