Word: rashtriya
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...Hindu extremists form the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), with the avowed purpose of creating a purely Hindu Indian nation...
...fundamentalists who hoped it would undo India's secular constitution. Last year, for instance, the government offered no support to Hindu volunteers who marched to Ayodhya to demand that the temple be built at the disputed site. Key elements of the BJP's right-wing support base, like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu-nationalist volunteer group, "feel that Vajpayee has done precious little to advance the Hindu agenda," says Harish Khare, a journalist at the Indian newspaper the Hindu and an expert on relations between the BJP and the RSS. Ram Madhav, an RSS spokesman, acknowledges some points...
...Vadnagar remember two things about their most famous son. His startling abilities as an actor, taking lead roles in school plays and once writing and performing a one-man show. And his almost fanatical devotion, from the age of five, to the BJP's parent organization, the secretive Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers Party, or RSS). Modi's 86-year-old mother Hiraben recalls that her son couldn't wait for the moment each day when he could change into his RSS cadet uniform of khaki shorts, white shirt and black cap and snap out smart salutes to a saffron...
...Fatima, daughter Janoo and another relative are shot dead. The killers then enter a neighbor's house and kidnap the owner, Nizamuddin. (He remains missing.) Soon after the first shootings, rebels attack army camps at Waripora Magam and Zachaldar in Kupwara. Five soldiers, members of the 21 and 24 Rashtriya Rifles, are killed and 13 more wounded. The Lashkar-i-Tayyaba admits carrying out the assaults, which it says were the work of a lone militiaman. Their man, it adds, although intending to die, was unscathed in both. By the end of the day, the death toll across Kashmir...
...Young Hindu fundamentalists have gone on violent frenzies in the past year, assaulting missionaries and heckling couples in Kanpur on Valentine's Day--a Western invention, they asserted, that should not be observed in India. Many of the toughs were enlisted by youth and student groups affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu revivalist organization that is the parent to India's ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party...