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...Today, much of this tension stems from India's rule over Muslim-dominated Kashmir in the face of strident Pakistani opposition. The war on terror and the 1998-2004 rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on a Hindu nationalist agenda - which also stoked a Hindu pogrom in Gujarat in 2002 in which 2,000 Muslims died - has lent further legitimacy to India's lurking anti-Muslim prejudice. In 2003, just before twin bomb blasts in August that killed more than 50, TIME spoke to "Umar," a SIMI operative, or Ansar ("guide"), who said his men were carrying...
...this isn't L.A. It's New Delhi, and the patient is Rahul Mahajan, son of Pramod, former leader of the opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, who was killed in a family dispute last month. In this conservative city of 14 million, corruption scandals may be routine, but designer drugs have historically seemed as easy to find as steak...
...DIED. Pramod Mahajan, 56, general secretary of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); from gunshot wounds allegedly inflicted 12 days earlier by his brother Pravin, who reportedly told police he was tired of being ignored by his powerful sibling; in Bombay. After the BJP's surprise defeat in the 2004 general elections, Mahajan was seen as the great hope to revive the party; his death leaves India's struggling opposition in further disarray. Mahajan, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was "a charismatic and youthful leader, full of promise and energy." Pravin has been charged with murder and is awaiting...
...changed? Since 2004, India and Pakistan have been engaged in their first-ever meaningful peace process and taken significant steps to normalize relations. What's more, India's Hindu right wing, which rose to prominence by stoking sectarian hatred and held power from 1997 to 2004 under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is in disarray. The party has yet to recover from its election defeat two years ago and the round of bitter infighting that followed...
...Many ascribe this relative amity to the fading appeal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Hindu nationalist party that won general elections in 1997 and 1998. It rose to prominence largely by encouraging Hindu extremism, most strikingly when its supporters destroyed a mosque at Ayodhya in 1992, claiming it had been built over a Hindu temple. But since last year's electoral defeat by the Congress Party, the Indian right has disintegrated into factionalism, split between those who continue to revile Pakistan and those, like BJP president Lal Krishna Advani, who think hatred as a political strategy...