Tarun Vijay’s book Saffron Surge released in Kolkata
Kolkata officially witnessed the proverbial saffron surge with the release of ‘Saffron Surge: Making of a Brave, New Bharat’, by Suresh (Bhaiyyaji) Joshi, member of Akhil Bharatiya Karya Karini and former general secretary of the RSS.
The book authored by eminent writer and thinker and former Rajya Sabha MP, Tarun Vijay, documents a masterful chronicle of the torment suffered by the Hindus and their sustained war through the ages against the “aggression” from “Kasim to the Congress” — right till their civilisational reawakening. The book, which had already been released in Delhi earlier, travels to Kolkata, a City of Joy, nay a city of avid readers, on a day when one of the bravest sons, Kshudiram Bose, was martyred at the hands of the British 118 years ago.
The book carries a foreword by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat who calls it a “running commentary with analysis and suggestions” that would be of great help in restoring Bharat to its former “glory, self-esteem and rightful place as a Vishwa Guru.”
The book that carries endorsements from likes of RSS ideologue Ratan Sharda, author Amish Tripathi has a prologue written by RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, who calls it a “romantic contemporary history” of India’s ideological shift.
The ideological shift that the author said became most eminent through two equally great historical events: the first was the recreation of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya and the second and equally important was the saffron surge in Bengal through the coming of the BJP in power in the State by ending the “prolonged oppressive rule “Wam panthis (Left) Dam panthis (the corrupt) and the patrons of Ghaznavis.” Bengal had finally defeated and liberated itself by defeating the mentality of Aurangzebs and Jinnahs, he iterated, urging the people to read the book written in a new historiographical context. “I would appeal to the people to read the book painstakingly written… throwing light into the oppressive past and reawakening of a new Hindu civilisation,” the author said.
The programme was attended by, among others, Bengal Finance Minister Dr Swapan Dasgupta, former Tripura Governor Tathagato Roy, State Information and Culture Minister Purnima Chakrabarty and the great-granddaughter of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangha.
