🤬 @Evening: Muslim Encroachment, JNU Hate Slogans And More

1. 📰 Catch up

• Supreme Court quashed the Kerala High Court order granting anticipatory bail to four people in ISRO espionage case.

• BJP gave posts to Punjab Congress detractors, Captain Amarinder Singh and Sunil Jakhar appointed as members of national executive, Jaiveer Shergill as national spokesperson.

• India has hit out at China for objecting to a joint military exercise conducted by Indian and United States Army in Uttarakhand's Auli.

• NIA arrested absconding terrorist Harpreet Singh, the main conspirator in the Ludhiana court bomb blast case.

• Chennai Metro recorded 62.71 lakh passenger footfall for the month of November, 150 per cent increase since January.

2. ☸️ Bihar: ASI's empty boast

Claim v/s truth: ASI boasted of taking back control of a holy 2300-year-old Buddhist shrine in Bihar’s Sasaram from Muslim encroachers.

• However, it turns out that the boast was an empty one because Muslims have been allowed to worship at the shrine.

• Muslims claimed the cavern to be the mazar (mausoleum) of an obscure Sufi saint and captured the place in 2005.

• Lord Buddha is believed to have spent a night at this cavern after attaining enlightenment at Bodh Gaya in 528 BCE and hence it's a Buddhist shrine.

The encroachment: The place has one of Ashoka’s 13 minor rock edicts but it was damaged by Muslim captors in a bid to erase them.

• A large dargah also came up next to the cavern and a part of the dargah even encroached on the roof of the cavern.

• ASI's requests of clearing the encroachment were ignored on Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's directives.

• Read the complete story here.

3. 📘 Aravindan's book launched today

Aravindan Neelakandan is a contributing editor at Swarajya and is known for co-authoring Breaking India.

• He has been writing articles on Hindutva for Swarajya and it was high time that his ideas had to be compiled into a book.

• Finally, his most awaited book Hindutva: Origin, Evolution and Future was launched today.

• You can order the book from here.

Comments: Many authors read this book before publishing and shared their comments.

• Dr Vikram Sampath called it "a magisterial work to understand what Hindutva actually is and stands for."

• Harsh Gupta Madhusudan called it "the most comprehensive and erudite book on Hindutva, perhaps since the one written by Veer Savarkar."

4. 🤬 Threat slogans on JNU walls

The slogans were seen in different buildings of the JNU campus yesterday.

• They targeted hate against people from Brahmin and Baniya castes.

• The slogans say – “Brahmins leave the campus”, “There will be blood”, “Brahmin Bharat Chhodo (leave India)” and “Brahmino-Baniyas, we are coming for you... We will avenge”.

Reactions: President of RSS-affiliated ABVP, Rohit Kumar, told the media that they suspected it to be a handiwork of “communist goons”.

• A Twitter account called JNU Teachers’ Forum accused the “Left-Liberal gang” for the act.

• The teacher and student bodies urged the varsity administration to conduct a 'free and fair enquiry' to ensure peace in the campus.

5. 🎵‘Sangeetha Vidyanidhi’ title to Nanjundaswamy

V Nanjundaswamy is a reputed musicologist, counselor, author and veena player.

• He has directed, coordinated, produced and narrated more than 100 musical features in English and Kannada in various cultural gatherings, apart from shows in All India Radio and Doordarshan. 

• He has uploaded 2,010 videos on more than 756 subjects (on YouTube) explaining with his veena and vocal renditions.

JSS Sangeetha Sabha Trust is celebrating 27th annual national music conference from 2 to 6 December in Mysore.

• Nanjundaswamy has been chosen as the conference president and would also be conferred with the title ‘Sangeetha Vidyanidhi’ during the valedictory for his lifetime achievements in music.

• JSS Sangeetha Sabha has been hosting world-renowned musicians, and their performances since 1983.