Tipu Sultan

Debate over Tipu Jayanti in Karnataka

On: November 11, 2016

The debate on celebrating the second annual Tipu Jayanti is underway in Karnataka with the usual suspects taking the usual ideological positions. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have taken to the nasty sniping that could easily fuel the kind of acrimony, which has claimed two lives inContinue Reading

Why Mangalore’s Catholics are joining RSS against Tipu Sultan

By: Matters India

On: November 10, 2015

In: Analysis

Bengaluru: Putting behind the recent memory of the 2008 church attacks, some Catholics are enthusiastically joining hands with the RSS and the Bajrang Dal against an ancient foe — Tipu Sultan. The Sangh has organised protests across the state against the Siddaramaiah government’s decision to celebrate Tipu’s 165th birth anniversaryContinue Reading