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| | Hindutva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Muslims are also funded for the Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca and subsidies for their religious schools Madrasa, while Hindutva followers claim Hindus are accorded no similar privilege for their own pilgrimages or religious schools by the Government of India and are made to pay for subsidies to Muslims and Christians pilgrimages and religious education. | | | "Hindutva" is thus usually translated by its opponents as "Hinduness", describing a nationalist identity based around hindu religion. | | | The etymology of the word is peculiar, "Hindu-" coming from a Persian root while "-tva" is a Sanskrit suffix. |
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| | Manas: Culture, Everyday life in India |
| | Hindutva is built on the tenets of re-formed Hinduism of the nineteenth century. | | | To those who live in Hinduism Hindutva is one of those pathologies which periodically afflict a faith or a way of life, Hinduism has, over the centuries, handled many such pathologies; it still retains the capacity to handle one more. | | | Perhaps directly in Bali and some sections of the Sikhs and the Jains in India; less directly in aspects of Thai and Sri Lankan Buddhism, in the pre-imperial forms of Christianity in South India and, to the utter chagrin of many, in many strands of South Asian Islam. |
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| | Hindutva and minorities |
| | Hinduism may not be a religion with one god, one prophet and one book but it does have many sects and panths with rigid shastric traditions and orthodoxies. | | | It is not true, as often claimed by the Hindutva forces, that Hinduism can't yield to theocratic or authoritarian set up and that only Hindus can be secular and democratic. | | | I was told by some secular Hindus in Gujarat that the imam was close to the BJP and he did so at the instance of the Sangh Parivar. |
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http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Religion-communalism/2003/hindutva.htm
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| | L. Stanislaus, SVD - Hindutva and Marginalized - Christian Response |
| | Adivasi leaders allege that the Hindutva has imposed their beliefs, their faith and their culture on the Adivasis in the name of one nation, one religion and one culture. | | | Hindutva uses religious imagery, glorifies the ‘golden past’ and rule of Hindu kings, sees women primarily under patriarchal control dictating their way of life, dress code, etc.. | | | Adivasis "have seized the opportunity to embrace Hinduism, which is the religion of the majority and considered to be one of the oldest religions in the world. |
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| | Hindutva |
| | Hindutva is not a religion, it is a political movement which began in the early 20's and has picked up momentum in the last decade. | | | In contrast, Hindutva politics is based on upper caste ethos, and aims at the hegemony of one section of society, one type of religion over the whole society. | | | Myth : Unlike Semitic Religions -- Christianity, Islam, etc. -- Hindutva is a purely non-dogmatic religion. |
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http://www.geocities.com/indianfascism/fascism/hindutva.htm
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| | Anti-Social elements in our society |
| | The forces of Hindutva as represented by the BJP, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal, the RSS, the ABVP, the Shiv Sainiks believe that India is "one nation based on one culture'' and its heritage is linked with Hindu religion. | | | Second, under the direct control of the BJP Government in Gujarat, Christian places of worship and schools are under attack by the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. | | | The results of the elections to the State Assemblies should not make secular forces complacent because there is no evidence in the twentieth century history of India that the behaviour of religion-based politics abandon their path because sometimes masses go against them. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/al/appiusforum/hindutva.html
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| | proXsa: Politics: Hindutva: Hindutva Offensive Social Roots: Characterisation |
| | The construction of Hindutva is to be seen in the backdrop of emergence of Hinduism as a homogenous religion. | | | Secondly unlike the dalits they lie in a subcritical zone of backwardness where they find it difficult to come out of the grip of their own 'religious leaders', 'the muslim obscurantists' posing to be speaking on behalf of 'their community. | | | To begin with Fundamentalist Hindutva is not the Hinduism practised by millions of people. |
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| | Hinduism, Hindutva and Judiciary |
| | Hindutva is a synthesis of religion and politics. | | | It is from here that the concept of Hindutva started taking shape and came to be articulated by Savarkar in his book, 'Hindutva or who is a Hindu'. | | | The Jains have struggled against Hindutva forces and got minority status for themselves, as an independent religion and not just a sect of Hinduism. |
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| | An Analysis of Hindutva |
| | Thus, far from being a narrow nationalistic doctrine, Hindutva is in its true essence, 'a timeless and universal compilation of human wisdom'. | | | The term "Hindutva" is derived from the two terms 'Hindu Tattva", which literally mean "Hindu Principles". | | | And this is why Hinduism is called a Living Idea, guided by the sum total of human wisdom that is not considered to be embodied in one person, or one book, or one period of human history. |
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| | New Preface |
| | Hindutva may not be one singular thing at all, but rather disparate bits of ideology lumped together by specific groups in specific times and places. | | | Official Hindutva gave communalism cultural validity that made Hindu violence against Muslims seem a natural manifestation of Hindu rage. | | | Scholars need to look closely at where Hindutva takes root, prospers, withers, dies, lives in surrogates, or never arrives. |
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http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dludden/MIH2Preface.htm
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| | The Danger of Hindutva to Secular India |
| | The latter religions, termed “semitic&; according to the Hindutva theory of history, are alien faiths imposed from the outside on “Hindu India&; by foreign aggressors. | | | This brand of religious revivalism – Hindutva as it is known – has the dimensions of a sustained movement with ambitions of political and cultural reform. | | | Ultimately, it is in its definition of “enemy” versus “Indian” where Hindutva reveals its true colors, for at root is the assertion that the only “true” Indians are Hindus, while all others – particularly Muslims and Christians &; are not. |
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| | proXsa: Politics: Hindutva: The Saffron Dollar |
| | There appears to be a fairly universal agreement that the outfits of Hindutva are manned by two sorts of people: the moderate (exemplified by Vajpayee despite his own tight links with the RSS hot-heads) and the fanatic (exemplified by B. Sharma ‘Prem’ and the foot soldiers who destroyed Mir Baqi’s mosque at Ayodhya). | | | That is, whether one is actually a follower of Hindutva or not, one tends to acknowledge its presence in terms of its electoral strength in India (via the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena) and the “relevance” of its overall politico-cultural arguments. | | | This is how American racism helps in valorising the forces of Hindutva by both the Hindu bourgeoisie and by an American society which is superficially impressed by the antiquity of the Subcontinent (and its philosophical heritage—notably the monotheism of the Upanishads and of Buddhism). |
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| | About Hindutva |
| | The distinction between Hindutva and Hinduism must be clear. | | | Through repeated lies these groups are able to infiltrate the minds of the vast majority of Hindus in India and U.S. and demonizing Muslims and other minorities. | | | The idea is that non-Hindus should 'submit' to the will of the Hindus and the assertion that muslims and other minorities 'must adjust' to the Hindus and 'hope for the goodwill of the majority' to live in peace - that is the core of the Hindutva problem. |
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http://www.imc-usa.org/convention/hindutva.htm
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| | Hindutva and history |
| | The definition of a Hindu as given by Savarkar was that India had to be his pitribhumi (ancestral land) and his punyabhumi (the land of his religion). | | | Such history is dismissed by the Hindutva ideologues as Western, imperialist, Marxist, or whatever, but they are themselves unaware of what these labels mean or the nature of these readings. | | | Why then do Hindutva ideologues - Indian and non-Indian - keep flogging a dead horse and refuse to consider the more recent alternative theories? |
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| | Hindutva ire |
| | In some qualitative respects, Hindutva is no different from the Taliban or Pakistan's Islamic fundamentalists, with whom the BJP has been rightly compared. | | | Because Hindutva nationalism suppresses the negative or egregious aspects of the past, it cannot reform what the present inherits from it. | | | This mirrors the infamous Hindutva formulation of the rape report of the National Commission for Women: "However, in India, in ancient times, women had enjoyed an able position in the household and in society. |
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http://www.flonnet.com/fl1825/18251120.htm
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| | The strategic syncretism of Hindutva ideology is attempted at two ways: Firstly: Vedic religion succeeded in integrating within itself indigenous popular religions and sects. | | | The attempt to establish a single Hindu community or Hindutva in India by violent, fanatical and fundamentalist groups is a development of recent times. | | | It is an attempt to make Hinduism a Semitic religion like Christianity and Islam. |
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| | Women’s Convention: Hindutva vs |
| | The obsession to identify Indianness with Hindutva was leading to the violation and erosion of the rights of not merely the minority women but also those of the Hindu women, and to collating religion and Hindutva politics was thrushing forward patriarchal ideology in the name of religion and Indian culture. | | | Brinda Karat of AIDWA showed how Hindutva had little to do with religion, and was merely a strategy adopted by the Sangh Parivar to capture political power. | | | To subvert the democratic goals of the women’s movement varied strategies were being used – from depiction of women in the media, beauty contests, forms of caste domination, cultural symbols, selective use of tradition and consumerism. |
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| | The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva |
| | Hindutva’s cultural basis seems to remove it from such standard forms of fascism. | | | This particular ideology is variously called an ideology of Hindu pride, Hindu patriotism, Hindu fundamentalism, Hindu revivalism, Hindu chauvinism, Hindu fascism or Hindutva. | | | This defines the Hindu nation on cultural criteria—as a people united by a common cultural heritage—and from the start Hindutva proponents have insisted that the word ‘Hindu&; refers to a cultural rather than a religious community…. |
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| | INDIA: THE DICTATORS OF HINDUTVA AIM FOR "A DEATH BLOW" IN DANGS |
| | The dictators of Hindutva, just like all religious dictators, are doing this not for the good of the people, but in an effort to shore up their own power and prosperity. | | | The Sangh is creating a whole new localised mythology and tradition with which to deceive, seduce, pressurise and Hinduise the tribals. | | | After losing power in the centre in 2004 the Sangh is striving to convert as many tribals as possible to its Hindutva version of Hinduism, thus creating votes and militant muscle against its "enemies". |
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| | Myths and Dreams: Hindutva Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora |
| | To rail, as so many do, against the persistence of structural inequities, of the horrors of history, of the politics of caste and cows in the present, is only to bear incriminating evidence of one’s own bastardisation, loss of purity, lack of faith and pride in “Indianness”. | | | It is prevalent to claim India as a Hindu nation, at least a nation of “soft Hindutva.” Hindutva, soft Hindutva, moderate Hindutva – ideologies soft on genocidee. | | | Others misrepresent that support for a Hindu India is not support for Hindutva, only pride in the glory of India’s past, so from it one might craft India’s future. |
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| | Modi will take Hindutva to all Cong-ruled states |
| | Hindutva believes in the free flow of knowledge. | | | Calling Sonia Gandhi 'Italy ki beti,' he said: "First she said Hindutva has endangered the unity and integrity of the country; then she said Hindutva is anti-Dalit; then she said Hindutva is against women and now she says Hindutva is against development. | | | Addressing a mammoth rally at Shivaji Park in Mumbai, Modi said: "I have come to inquire about [Maharashtra Chief Minister] Vilasrao Deshmukh's health. |
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| | HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN October 2003 Review Hindutva’s Hoax |
| | What is refreshing and reassuring about Nanda’s approach is that she locates the resources for this battle against Hindu dharma and Hindutva in Bhimrao Ambedkar’s ideas and the alternatives posited by the Dalit movement. | | | Even the most passionate spokespersons of secularism in India seem to invest faith in ‘good Hinduism&; and its ‘plurality’ and seem content to direct their critical energies against Hindutva, refusing to see the fundamental links between the former and the latter. | | | And to arrive at what might be morally and ethically right knowledge (say, Ambedkarite Buddhism) can sometimes take a long and tortuous route in identity and representational politics that liberal democracy entails. |
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| | More Hindutva, not less, harmed the BJP |
| | It is an irony that all the present parties preaching Hindutva talk some thing totally against Hinduism! | | | And should the BJP, against conventional wisdom, actually go back to its destructive Hindutva ideology, it will lose even more. | | | I am at loss to understand their logic... |
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| | Hindu Unity - Soldiers of Hindutva! Awake Hindus!! |
| | Young, strong and fearless group of Hindus who are willing to die for the cause of Hindutva. | | | Anyone can join HinduUnity.org providing that they support the cause of Hindutva and a forming a Hindu Rashtra in India. | | | All our Hindu brothers and sisters are deeply welcome to join our cause. |
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| | CounterCurrents.org communalism home page |
| | Not surprisingly, if there is one set of people that's smugly delighted with the earthquake that has devastated Pakistan, it has got to be the Hindu fascists owing allegiance to the RSS ideology. | | | By asserting that only Jews and Parsis are minorities,RSS chief Sudarshan wants to do away with the safeguards for weaker religious denominations, especially Muslims and Christians, who are the major victims of RSS progeny's Trishuls and Lathis | | | A fictional account of a tete-a-tete between Swami Prakashanand Saraswati, the spiritual leader of the Texas-based Vedic Foundation and a Hindutva activist |
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| | Hindutva - The Hindu Way of Life |
| | This need is utmost today with the dilution of the Hindutva outlook in the BJP, and the antics going on with the targeting of leaders like Shri Narendra Ji Modi, Shri Kalyan Singh Ji and Kum Uma Bharati Ji. | | | Many of us who swear by Hindutva, supported India's former HRD (Human Resources and Development) Minister Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi's move to bring Astrology (Jyotishi), Paurohitiya (rituals to be followed by Hindu priests), Karma-Kanda (orthodox beliefs about re-birth, karma i.e. | | | History is set to repeat itself, if the new breed of Hindutva leaders like Shri Narendra Ji Modi, Shri Kalyan Singh Ji and Kum Uma Bharati Ji raise the banner of revolt. |
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| | Hindu nationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It asserted that all of its people had in history adhered to Hindu religious values, and thus should be identified as Hindus not only for religious affialiation but also for nationality. | | | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, an Marathi freedom fighter and one of the earliest Hindu nationalists, wrote the treatise on Hindutva, defining it literally as Hindu-ness. | | | The Sangh Parivar is a collection of public, religious and political organizations that are Hindu nationalist in character and purpose, and often exponents of Hindutva and other forms of Hindu expression. |
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| | togadia's hindutva |
| | For Hindutva, scriptures, faith in god and specific religious rituals are not required because three of the six shastras, namely Shankhya, Nyay and Vaisheshik are agnostic and atheistic. | | | This approach is thus not different from that of Jinnah as both believe that the two communities cannot live together. | | | At present going by the interpretation of the Supreme Court, Hindu is one who claims himself to be a Hindu. |
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| | proXsa: Politics: Hindutva |
| | Hindutva is a nationalist ideology, based on a modern day version of centralized intolerant Hinduism. | | | It has nothing to do with a historical tradition of spiritual practices that we call Hinduism. | | | Such a distinction is important because the latter, Hindutva, has a history of blood letting - from the murder of Mahatma Gandhi (killed by a Hindutva ideologue, Nathuram Godse) to the more than 20,000 lives claimed in communal violence in India since 1950. |
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| | The Hindu : Of Hindutva and governance |
| | It was thus intrinsically difficult to unleash the energies of Hindutva. | | | In some ways it has already become the dominant sentiment: on all the issues, be it cow slaughter, conversion, cultural transformation, expansion of its base amongst tribals, the acceptance of religion in politics, changes in the self-perception of Indians, marginalisation of minorities, Hindutva is already mainstream. | | | Hindutva is a social movement that has produced an enormous amount of social churning that a lot of people feel empowered by. |
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| | Swaveda - Books - Economics - Hindu Diaspora: Global Perspectives |
| | It is refreshing to note that Hinduism is rightly portrayed much beyond Hindutva in the essays of this book. | | | I am against the political exploitation of any religion in any part of the world. | | | On the first page one finds one of the most repeated declarations such as: “Hinduism term itself is an invention by Britishers etc.” Again, on page 308, Hindu unity is wrongly compared with Hindutva. |
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| | A Critique Of Hindutva By Praful Bidwai |
| | or Hindutva, or broadly, the ensemble of doctrines, social movements | | | India's incomparably glorious past: The Vedic Age or the pre- | | | Hindutva has mobilised and energised large numbers of people, |
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| | HVK Archives: Secularism in the time of Hindutva | | | HVK Archives: Hindutva will remain the BJP's central focus - L. Advani | | | HVK Archives: Hindutva at the centre stage of Bharatiya politics |
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| | "THE HINDUTVA OFFENSIVE" by R.R.Puniyani, - Fanatic Hindutva Fascism Exposed. Elucidating the Dangers that Brahmanism ... |
| | "THE HINDUTVA OFFENSIVE" by R.R.Puniyani, - Fanatic Hindutva Fascism Exposed. | | | `The Hindutva Offensive' by R.R.Puniyani, noted member of EKTA, was originally published by FOIL (Forum of Indian Leftists) http://www.foil.org in USA, 1998 under the Title `Hindutva Offensive Social Roots: Characterisation'. | | | This edition has been edited by Hadwa Dom and was reproduced by Dalitstan Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 (August 1999) being thus archived in the Ambedkar Library in compliance with US Copyright Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Sec.107 on Fair Usage - http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html ; cf. |
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| | Hindutva Sites by DalitNet |
| | Reviews of Hindutva books, posing as a `rationalist' site. | | | The `World Hindu Coucil', the global representative of Hindutva. | | | Tries to brainwash the world into thinking that Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Pandita Indira Gandhi were all Muslims and Pandit Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi are Christians. |
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| | Campaign to Stop Funding Hate |
| | We stand in full solidarity with Friends of South Asia (FOSA) and urge that all secular and anti-supremacist citizens of California come together to support their efforts. | | | Hindutva is a political ideology that advocates use of violence, confuses nationality with culture and religion, is supremacist and exclusionary. | | | We are a small volunteer collective of academics and professionals who came together in 2002 after the "Gujarat Pogrom" where more than two thousand Indian Muslims were killed by organized paramilitary mobs of the Hindutva movement in India (the RSS and the Sangh Parivar, as the family of RSS organizations are collectively known). |
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| | Hindutva |
| | Uniting Hindus around the globe to fight for and preserve Hindutva | | | Promoting the cause of the Hindu Rashtra and enabling it to survive and prosper in an increasingly hostile environment | | | A resource centre for the promotion of Hindutva |
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http://www.hinduweb.org/home/general_sites/sita/sitakasansar/hindutva.htm
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| | IN BAD FAITH? BRITISH CHARITY AND HINDU EXTREMISM |
| | SIUK: a part of the RSS Hindutva mission | | | Background information on the RSS and Hindutva is given in Appendices 4 — 8. | | | Updates to the report are available at www.awaazsaw.org. |
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| | Misconceptions abound about what is Hindu rashtra, and how the concept of Hindutva fits in with the current Indian state, and how it would affect the religious minorities. | | | Arguably, more than any other, this book formulates the Hindutva philosophy as it pertains to various social and political aspects of a society. | | | Author, M Rama Jois, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, presents his detailed commentary on the definition of Hindutva by the Supreme Court of India |
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| | Advani wants BJP to return to Hindutva |
| | Bais quoted Advani as saying "RSS has all along given support to BJP in each and every election and we will continue to take their support and carry them along". | | | He further said "Hindutva is party's (BJP's) identity and we do not consider Hindutva and Indianism differently and we will stick to that". | | | In his address to the BJP National Executive here, he said the party should get back to the ideology that had appealed to the middle classes and the common man. |
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| | Current Focus: Gujarat Carnage - Hindutva Agenda (Online Volunteers Collective - Together We Can Make a Difference) |
| | Kochi, May 26 (UNI): Stating that perpetrators of human rights violations continued to enjoy immunity from punishment in many cases, Amnesty International today said the Gujarat state authorities had failed to bring to book those responsible for widespread violence in 2002. | | | A Factual Response to the Hate Attack on the IDRF | | | Current Focus: Gujarat Carnage - Hindutva Agenda (Online Volunteers Collective - Together We Can Make a Difference) |
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