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নাথুরাম গডসের শেষ স্বীকারোক্তি

কেন আমি গান্ধীজিকে মেরে ফেললাম – আদালতে নাথুরাম গডসের শেষ স্বীকারোক্তি। নাথুরাম গডসে কেন মহাত্মা গান্ধী কে মেরেছিল ? নিচে রইলো তার উত্তর। নাথুরাম গোদসকে গাঁধীজির হত্...

আমার ভয় করছে বাবা

ল্যাট্রিনের কমোডের জলে পড়ে যাওয়া আরশোলা যেমন ধড়ফড়িয়ে ওঠে, ঠিক তেমন করেই ভাতঘুম ভেঙে জেগে উঠেছিলাম বিকেলের শেষ দিকে আর তারপর এককাপ চা খেয়ে ছেলের হাত ধরে বেরিয়ে পড়েছিলাম ...

EYE ON RSS

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EYE ON RSS Deep inside the saffron lair in Bengal: What the RSS is up to in the eastern state A novelist and playwright infiltrates into the RSS to gain insight for his upcoming ‘novel’ and provides an account of his time spent in the Sangh It was the summer of 2016. I was part of a play in which a minister said to his PA that Lord Ganesha’s was the world’s first successful head transplant. The Qutb Minar, another part of the script, had the minister say, was actually a Vishnu Stambh. It left the audience in splits. But soon thereafter, I stumbled upon an article which claimed that they were actually parts of textbooks taught in RSS schools. I felt I could use this material in a novel I was plotting at that time. I needed to speak to teachers and students in these schools. But then RSS schools, I discovered, did not allow outsiders on their campus. Infiltrating the Sangh seemed the only way out for conversing with the teachers. Thankfully, the RSS was desperately trying to establis...