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Interview: ‘Vivekananda is the ideological nemesis of the Sangh Parivar’: Govind Krishnan V.

Govind Krishnan V.’s recently published Vivekananda: The Philosopher of Freedom is a conscious effort to challenge the Sangh Parivar’s depiction of the monk as an exemplar of right-wing values.

frontline.thehindu.com/intervi

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Swami Vivekananda is not a Sangh Parivar icon. Liberal-progressives allowed his appropriation

Capturing Vivekananda's legacy was much easier for the Sangh Parivar. The average Indian relates to him largely as a saffron-clad sanyasi. That's all RSS would like them to know, writes Yogendra Yadav.

theprint.in/opinion/swami-vive

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