The RSS has been perfecting its techniques of lie and rumour, innuendo and doublespeak, for a whole century. In a sense, the RSS has been perfecting its techniques of lie and rumour, innuendo and doublespeak, for a whole century. But beyond this matter of lies and violence, I wish to explore the connection between violence and language. The classic text is George Steiner’s exploration of what the violence of the Nazi experience had meant for the German language — Language and Silence: “Everything forgets. Kumar Sundaram’s mocking “Naxal” poem — “aage Naxal, peechhe Naxal” — could have put an end to the fatuous label “urban Naxal”, provided they were fully literate.

Source: Indian Express January 01, 2020 22:20 UTC