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A nation with sub-continental sprawl and over 1,200 million people, India is characterized by a huge diversity of languages, castes, religions, and ethic groups. From these and some other differences crops up the problem of intercultural communication – which, in today’s shrinking world, is a necessity, not only for diplomats or business leaders, but also for those involved with social networking. For the first time, this book sets out the challenges ...
In this book author trace the events between 1996 and the present, and how the BJP-led coalition Governments have fared in the political, economic, national security and defense, and the social arenas. A further challenge has been the internal criticism by the pressures from the RSS and its affiliates who feel that the BJP-coalition is reneging on a variety of promises. Complicating the scenario further are the global economic, political, and military pressures ...
"Hindu nationalism," the "Sangh Parivar." the "Saffron brigade," "Hindutvavadi," and other such labels are used as "devil terms" to demonize the RSS and its affiliates, including the Bharatiya Janata Party. Arguments have been replaced by these epithets—verbal crutches for an increasingly lazy and shrill media. The fount of such epithet production is the left, liberal, English-speaking Indian intelligentsia. ...
This collection of essays has been put together for several reasons, the least of which is to rationalize the violence in Gujarat after the burning to death of 60 Hindus returning from a pilgrimage in the town of Godhra on February 27, 2002.The book counters the mostly one-sided presentation of facts and analyses appearing in mainstream Indian English media, and the coordinated and orchestrated campaign against the BJP-led government in Gujarat and at the Center ...