Ep. 139: The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Problem With the Congress
I was fascinated by one of the nuggets in your book that back in 1891, a Gaurakshini Sabha meeting took place during the Nakhpur session of Congress. So, now when today Congress says what it does, they don't know about their own past, actually some of them don't. But I guess the thing with, for example, the so-called soft Hindu, the Congress today is that a lot of it seems to be merely posturing. They just see the battle that Nehru had to wait with Prashatanda, stand and on cow. Imagine he says, I'll resign, he's only someone like Nehru who had to really believe
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