South Karnataka has a different side to offer everybody. They are like a mob, going around looking for people to pick fights with.” Shariq’s friend Mamatha Gatti who has been sitting across and listening to Shariq’s story attributes the nature of Mangaluru’s multicultural population for the manner in which things have turned out. “They just can’t stop speculating what label …
Only with the coming of the Sangh and its projects like ‘Hindu Samajautsav’ and ‘Ittiga pooja’ were these spaces revived to operate as another space from where the Sangh could further expand their base. “Especially in our context, we had a practise which had minimal interference of the ruling castes back then like ‘Deiva Aradhane’. “The way things have changed …
For more than three decades now, South Kanara has gained a reputation as the Sangh Parivar’s laboratory. People unfamiliar with coastal Karnataka believe it is responsible for the growth of radical right-wing organisations like Hindu Yuva Sene, Bajrang Dal and Ram Sene, which propagate a form of divisive, hate-fuelled politics, using love jihad and gauraksha as instruments of coercion. People …
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