Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:32 am:

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Chirupower:

Raaru raanivvam

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:29 am:

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Tilak:

no body is controlling anyone's food habits .. beef kavalante tinu .. kaani oka aavu ni champadaniki .. rules unnayi .. follow those ..

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:25 am:

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Mushin:

loksabha lo em problem annai 545 out of 545 kaavala...idem justification asalu....oka strong govt nunchi expect chese aggressiveness assalu ledhu bjp ki..

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:22 am:

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Tilak:

Lok Sabha lo 282/545 seats unte daanni full majority antara?

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:18 am:

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Prouddesi:

naa kochen veru mee answer veru saaru

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:17 am:

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Chirupower:

Muslims pork thinatam ela thappantarao same applies beef for hindus adhi ardham cheskovali vaallu.

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:16 am:

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Prouddesi:

delhi election time lo kejri ki indirect support sesar , aadu gelavagane bjp meeda villain navvu navvar , ippuudu bihar time lo nitish ki indirect support

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:16 am:

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Tilak:

so legal ga edi allowed oo .. adi matrame implement cheyyamani insist chestondi Sangh

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:12 am:

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Oceanseven:

oka 544 saripodhaa ayithey ?

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 03:08 am:

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Prouddesi:

janaala food habits ni manam rule/control cheyoddu kada , thats my view

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:55 am:

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Oceanseven:

oka 544 saripodhaa ayithey ?

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:53 am:

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Prouddesi:

tilak bro , beef or chicken ni ila control cheyadam tappu kada , india is not hindu country ,.it is hindu majority country only , my muz friends love eating all non veg(beef included) and they are very good ppl to hang around , manaki chicken tinte ok vallaki beef ok , whats wrong in it , pls enlighten me

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Chirupower:

Uniform Civil Code testhunnara leka Mangala harathi ichesara?

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:52 am:

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Tilak:

Lok Sabha lo 282/545 seats unte daanni full majority antara?

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:44 am:

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Chirupower:

Nenu anedhi BJP yedho brahmin dominated party antaru kadha adhi nonsense ani.

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:41 am:

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Chirupower:

Pork thinamani cheppu aa tarvatha telusthadhi vaalla manchi thanam & enlightenment

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:28 am:

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Tilak:

illegal ga kontha untayi for sure .. kaani chala matuku taggayi .. infact Kerala lo ne illegal beef taggadam valla .. beef rate baga perigindi chudu ..

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:25 am:

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Chirupower:

Maharastra lo 100% banned aa beef ledha inka illegal ga nadusthunnaya?

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:25 am:

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Chirupower:

Fadnavis cabinet baagundhi andhariki nyayam ga ichadu.

Esp 4 ministers to OBC & SC,ST

The 8 ministers and 2 ministers of state in Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis�s cabinet represent a combination of regions and castes.

There are 2 Marathas, 2 OBCs, 1 SC, 1 ST, 1 North Indian, 1 Vaishya and 1 Gujarati Brahmin � apart from the CM himself, who is a Brahmin.

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:23 am:

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Oceanseven:

mari ram mandir kadathaaraa ee 5 years lo ? inkaa emainaa saakulu vunnaayaa ? full majority vundhi gaa ippudu

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:12 am:

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Chirupower:

Rajnath singh ippudu kattalemani telchesadu ga.

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 02:05 am:

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Tilak:

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Posted on Monday, August 17, 2015 - 01:51 am:

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Gandhiguevara:

only foot soldiers gaa maatrame paniki vasthaaru anta kadhaa? Sangh lo last 10 heads evaroo cheppu oka saari

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Siloan:

Andhra lo beezaalu padudeppudo ..

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Siloan:

scan da kishanz..

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 09:08 pm:

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Tilak:

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 08:03 pm:

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Tilak:

enti .. Sangh lo anni castes vallu untaru ani neeku telida?

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 07:38 pm:

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Gandhiguevara:

ante irrespective of castes anaa? Aaaa okkati adakku

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 05:15 pm:

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Gandhiguevara:

ante irrespective of castes anaa? Aaaa okkati adakku

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 05:14 pm:

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Tilak:

You would love reading this ..

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 05:12 pm:

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Rgb:

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 05:04 pm:

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Masularex:

wonderful...

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 04:41 pm:

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Masularex:

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 04:11 pm:

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Tilak:

Tamil Nadu lo Sangh valla .. South India lo aavulu/edlaki life dorukutondi!! Kerala lo illegal beef sales taggutunnayi ..

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 03:58 pm:

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Masularex:

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 03:42 pm:

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MUMBAI: A bunch of lively schoolboys form a circle around an authoritative 12-year-old in khaki shorts and a superman T-shirt at a Navi Mumbai maidan on a weekday night.

At first glance, they look merely like children at play. But as the boy leading the group conducts a series of activities from games and exercises to prayer recitations and a brief session of marching involving bringing one's right hand to one's chest, it gradually becomes evident that this is an RSS shakha in progress, one of 51,335 shakhas held daily across the country in 2015. Shakhas are the smallest unit of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

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While the organization is called 'extremist' by its critics, its admirers respond to the taunt by calling it 'Hindu nationalist'. But even its detractors agree that the RSS organizational network is virtually unparalleled. While there is no formal membership, an analysis of data on the number of shakhas conducted each year over the last five years shows a nearly 29% increase in daily shakhas, 61% increase in weekly shakhas and 40% growth in monthly shakhas across India from 2010-11 to 2014-15.

The trend is similar in cities like Mumbai, which have seen a 34% increase in the number of daily shakhas, while weekly shakhas have grown by over 70%. In the neighbouring township of Navi Mumbai, daily shakhas have more than doubled in five years.

The largest increase in shakhas across India over the last five years took place between 2013-14 and 2014-15.

It is tempting to attribute the high growth in RSS shakhas since 2013-14 to a change in government; BJP is part of the 38 ideological affiliates of RSS that form the Sangh Parivar.

But Pramod Bapat, media coordinator of the RSS Konkan division, insists RSS growth has nothing to do with a BJP government at the Centre, adding that the organization has flourished under Congress governments for decades. He says Kerala, with over 4,500 shakhas, has the highest number in India despite never having had a BJP government. RSS is also strong in West Bengal, where too the BJP presence was negligible till a few years ago.

A law graduate whom TOI met at a shakha conducted under a flyover says he joined RSS a few months ago via their website because he supported their views on Article 370 and a Uniform Civil Code, and not because of the BJP government.

In recent years, RSS shakha strength has increased as timings are adjusted to suit various age groups — students, working professionals and retired people. As part of its outreach, RSS befriends heads of various communities (for instance, the head of a blacksmith community in a particular area) and involves them in various social activities, gradually making inroads into the organization.

While senior RSS leader Narayan Samant, jailed during the Emergency, says the organization may have grown organically in the past, he believes it will grow a lot more in every sphere of life over the next four years as the government of the day belongs to the same ideology.

"We are not against any community. We were not born out of an opposition to anybody, including the British. We only want Hindus to unite and become strong. If we become strong, opposition to us will automatically reduce. When RSS was formed, Hindus stood divided. Now you will see much greater unity amongst Hindus," says Samant.

Many RSS members say they began attending shakhas as children in the villages where they grew up. A coffee shop employee in Mumbai began attending shakhas in his town in Karnataka, and continued doing so after moving states. Some say the Sangh network helps them make friends in a new city. An engineering student joined RSS as a child, when he saw shakhas being conducted at a maidan in front of his building. The youngest child that TOI saw at an RSS shakha was in kindergarten.

The organization is successful on social media, with over 15 lakh 'Likes' on its Facebook page and 1.5 lakh followers on Twitter. "Their Facebook page has some of the best graphic designers," says a youngster whose grandmother is with RSS. He says the organization has a network of WhatsApp groups and generates content for WhatsApp.

"The spread of RSS is being experienced not only in cities but in almost every tehsil and over 55,000 villages of our Bharat, says Bapat.

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