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Citizenship Act protests: Ramachandra Guha detained in Bengaluru
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTBENGALURU, DECEMBER 19, 2019 11:49 IST
UPDATED: DECEMBER 20, 2019 12:12 IST
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Author and Historian Ramachandra Guha detained at Town Hall in Bengaluru.
Author and Historian Ramachandra Guha detained at Town Hall in Bengaluru.
As many as 40 platoons of reserve police force have been deployed in Bengaluru
As many as 25 people, including historian and author Ramachandra Guha, were detained by the police when they attempted to stage a peaceful protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Town Hall in Bengaluru around 11am on Thursday. He was bundled into a van when he tried to defend his right to take out a peaceful rally.
The police also rounded up protesters from surrounding streets and roads as they were making their way to the spot. A similar scene played out at Mysore Circle when people started gathering there.
Also read: People should protest peacefully and restore pluralistic values: Ramachandra Guha
At Town Hall, the police rounded up protesters in buses, while women were being taken to the police station in auto-rickshaws. “This is not done. We are here to protest peacefully,” said one agitator.
WhatsApp messages have also been doing the rounds urging citizens to lend their support and gather at Town Hall.“We will be peaceful… Please turn up,” read one such message.
Vatal Nagaraj detained at his residence
Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha (KCVP) leader Vatal Nagaraj was detained at his residence in Dollars Colony minutes before he planned to take out a protest.
As many as 40 platoons of reserve police force have been deployed along with the city police at sensitive points across the city to maintain law and order after Section 144 was imposed across the state last evening. “Police personnel have been instructed not to use force, keeping in mind what happened in Delhi,” said a senior police official referring to the violence of the police response to student protests at Jamia Islamia Millia, and the ensuing nationwide unrest.
People should protest peacefully and restore pluralistic values: Ramachandra Guha
STAFF REPORTERDECEMBER 18, 2019 23:00 IST
UPDATED: FEBRUARY 06, 2020 19:41 IST
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‘Patriotism is not voting once in five years and then keeping silent’
Historian Ramachandra Guha has said that people should protest peacefully and restore the pluralistic values on which the country was built, touching upon the Citizenship Amendment Act in the course of his talk on “In Defence of Indian Pluralism.”
Speaking in Bengaluru on Wednesday, Mr. Guha said that patriotism operates at all levels, from a village to New Delhi. “Patriotism is not voting once in five years and then keeping silent.”
Talking about the tendency of crushing dissent and demonising critics as anti-nationals, he said that this was disturbing and alarming. He added that while one is rooted in one’s culture, they should also be willing to adopt from and learn from others.
He said that the narrative of the Hindutva brigade was that the Hindus are superior to others, Hindi is superior to other languages, and one needs to hate Pakistan to be patriotic. “This is a standard European model of nationalism of the 19th century where countries were built on one religion, one language, and one common enemy,” he said.
Mr. Guha argued that there was nothing Indian about Hindutva and it is “two parts European idea and one part borrowed from medieval Iran.”
He added that Indian nationalism during the freedom struggle was radically different from “Hindutva jingoism.”
With political jingoism, coupled with economic slowdown, India, like Pakistan, is becoming “a majoritarian inward-looking state.”
Explaining the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ascendency of Hindutva ideology in the country, Mr. Guha said that the nepotism and the corruption of the Congress, the intellectual and the moral hypocrisy of the Left and its so-called internationalism, the surge of Islamic fundamentalism in the neighbourhood, had all played vital roles.
Citizenship Act protests: Ramachandra Guha detained in Bengaluru
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTBENGALURU, DECEMBER 19, 2019 11:49 IST
UPDATED: DECEMBER 20, 2019 12:12 IST
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Author and Historian Ramachandra Guha detained at Town Hall in Bengaluru.
Author and Historian Ramachandra Guha detained at Town Hall in Bengaluru.
As many as 40 platoons of reserve police force have been deployed in Bengaluru
As many as 25 people, including historian and author Ramachandra Guha, were detained by the police when they attempted to stage a peaceful protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Town Hall in Bengaluru around 11am on Thursday. He was bundled into a van when he tried to defend his right to take out a peaceful rally.
The police also rounded up protesters from surrounding streets and roads as they were making their way to the spot. A similar scene played out at Mysore Circle when people started gathering there.
Also read: People should protest peacefully and restore pluralistic values: Ramachandra Guha
At Town Hall, the police rounded up protesters in buses, while women were being taken to the police station in auto-rickshaws. “This is not done. We are here to protest peacefully,” said one agitator.
WhatsApp messages have also been doing the rounds urging citizens to lend their support and gather at Town Hall.“We will be peaceful… Please turn up,” read one such message.
Vatal Nagaraj detained at his residence
Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha (KCVP) leader Vatal Nagaraj was detained at his residence in Dollars Colony minutes before he planned to take out a protest.
As many as 40 platoons of reserve police force have been deployed along with the city police at sensitive points across the city to maintain law and order after Section 144 was imposed across the state last evening. “Police personnel have been instructed not to use force, keeping in mind what happened in Delhi,” said a senior police official referring to the violence of the police response to student protests at Jamia Islamia Millia, and the ensuing nationwide unrest.
People should protest peacefully and restore pluralistic values: Ramachandra Guha
STAFF REPORTERDECEMBER 18, 2019 23:00 IST
UPDATED: FEBRUARY 06, 2020 19:41 IST
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‘Patriotism is not voting once in five years and then keeping silent’
Historian Ramachandra Guha has said that people should protest peacefully and restore the pluralistic values on which the country was built, touching upon the Citizenship Amendment Act in the course of his talk on “In Defence of Indian Pluralism.”
Speaking in Bengaluru on Wednesday, Mr. Guha said that patriotism operates at all levels, from a village to New Delhi. “Patriotism is not voting once in five years and then keeping silent.”
Talking about the tendency of crushing dissent and demonising critics as anti-nationals, he said that this was disturbing and alarming. He added that while one is rooted in one’s culture, they should also be willing to adopt from and learn from others.
He said that the narrative of the Hindutva brigade was that the Hindus are superior to others, Hindi is superior to other languages, and one needs to hate Pakistan to be patriotic. “This is a standard European model of nationalism of the 19th century where countries were built on one religion, one language, and one common enemy,” he said.
Mr. Guha argued that there was nothing Indian about Hindutva and it is “two parts European idea and one part borrowed from medieval Iran.”
He added that Indian nationalism during the freedom struggle was radically different from “Hindutva jingoism.”
With political jingoism, coupled with economic slowdown, India, like Pakistan, is becoming “a majoritarian inward-looking state.”
Explaining the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ascendency of Hindutva ideology in the country, Mr. Guha said that the nepotism and the corruption of the Congress, the intellectual and the moral hypocrisy of the Left and its so-called internationalism, the surge of Islamic fundamentalism in the neighbourhood, had all played vital roles.
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