The Caravan – August 2019

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law

18 ScorchedEarth

ThesuffocationoftheNationalGreenTribunal

arunachandrasekhar

communities

22 IntheCrosshairs

Howpoetrybecamea crimeinAssam

samrat

perspectives

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VOLUME 11 • ISSUE 8

AUGUST 2019

Tulsi Gabbard, a fourth-term Democratic congresswoman from

Hawaii, has launched her campaign for the 2020 presidential

election in the United States. If she wins, she would be the first

woman, and the first Hindu, to be US president. Her rise to

prominence came out of nowhere, and is inexplicable until one

considers the role of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in it. A

large number of her donors, even from when she was a virtual

unknown, are top executives in RSS affiliates in the United States.

Members of such groups organised fundraisers and contributed

hundreds of thousands of dollars to her various campaigns, as the

Sangh looked for sympathetic politicians to rehabilitate Narendra

Modi’s tainted reputation in the United States in the run-up to his

election as the prime minister of India. Gabbard played a significant

part in that project, even as she now tries to distance herself from

the RSS in order to run for the White House as a progressive

Democrat.

film

60 Jatt Like That

How Diljit Dosanjh helmed the rise of Punjabi comedy

manik sharma

All inthe Family

The American Sangh’s affair

with Tulsi Gabbard

pieter friedrich

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cover story / politics