India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app to ensure cyber safety

Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by abhiyerra on Monday December 01, 2025 @08:45PM (#46116309)

  1. Modi is considered Other Backward Class which is a low caste. 
  2. Hindutva ideology according to Savarkar, who came up with the term, is that Hindu is a national identity not a religious one. Sindu became Hindu in Persian, and Indus in Greek. And the Sindu was a river. So the Hindutva ideology is in reference to the people on the other side of the Sindu river. This is why Hindutva literally translates to Hinduness. I understand that this doesn't always translate into religious tolerance of Muslims (yes, I say specifically Muslims) but that is because the RSS was formed to counter attacks on Hindus by Muslims in the 1920s. Hedgewar (Founder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh): A Definitive Biography by Sachin Nandha was a super informative deep dive into the BJP/RSS.
  3. Modi has a 70%+ approval rate even after more than 10 years in power. So his government is popular and the results of the BJP's power are hard to ignore in terms of the infrastructure and India now being the 4th largest economy.

Speaking specifically to this law I think the government is just setting up a back doors of sorts with the recent bomb attack in Delhi and the terror networks founds in India.

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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by fakedang on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @03:58AM (#46119119)

> that is because the RSS was formed to counter attacks on Hindus by Muslims in the 1920s.

> Founded on 27 September 1925,[18] the initial impetus of the organisation was to provide character training and instil "Hindu discipline" in order to unite the Hindu community and establish a Hindu Rashtra (Hindu nation).

> ....After reading Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's ideological pamphlet, Essentials of Hindutva, published in Nagpur in 1923, and meeting Savarkar in the Ratnagiri prison in 1925, Hedgewar was extremely influenced by him, and he founded the RSS with the objective of "strengthening" Hindu society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh

Please stop spreading baseless opinions as fact when you yourself know no better. And for matters involving communal issues, I would much rather trust a crowd-sourced knowledge base rather than the opinions of a half-assed biography.

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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by abhiyerra on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @12:39PM (#46123957)

I do have a degree in History with a focus on India and British Empire from Berkeley. So no I don’t think I am being baseless. Hindutva is complex, the 20s were a difficult time in India as all the revolutionaries from the different factions were trying to imagine a future independent India. The Islam/Hindu divide was a creation of the British for divide and rule. And while Gandhi imagined a nonviolent basically traditional hierarchical Hindu society, Hedgewar wanted an organization that removed the bonds of caste and creed so that Hindus can function as a single unified front.

I do think Hedgewar won and Gandhi lost. Also please do understand all sources have biases including Wikipedia.

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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by amriksohata on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:34AM (#46119391)

You will find many different interpretations of Hindutva - look at Hindu websites not political websites.

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