Ramesh Nagaraj Rao

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Ramesh Nagaraj Rao is a professor of Communication at Columbus State University.

Columbus State University public institution of higher learning located in Columbus, Georgia, United States

Columbus State University is a public institution of higher learning located in Columbus, Georgia. Founded as Columbus College in 1958, the university was established and is administered by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

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Education

Ramesh Nagaraj Rao received his Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Joseph's College, Bangalore in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology in 1977 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore. [1] He had worked as a bank officer and school teacher, before migrating to United States in 1985. [1] Rao obtained a MS in Mass Communication from the University of Southern Mississippi and then obtained his PhD in Communication from Michigan State University in 1991. [1] [2]

A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts programs generally take three to four years depending on the country, institution, and specific specializations, majors, or minors. The word baccalaureus should not be confused with baccalaureatus, which refers to the one- to two-year postgraduate Bachelor of Arts with Honors degree in some countries.

St Josephs College, Bangalore Higher education institution in Bangalore, India

St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Bangalore is one of the oldest colleges in the state of Karnataka with a history of more than 136 years. It has been conferred as College of Excellence by the University Grants Commission (India). The college is awarded a rating of A++ (3.79/4), in the 4th cycle of re-accreditation by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in 2017. It imparts graduate, post-graduate and research education. St. Joseph's College has around 300 teaching and non-teaching staff and more than 5500 students. St. Joseph’s College is located at Langford Road near Richmond Circle, Bengaluru

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Indian educational trust

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is an Indian educational trust. It was founded on 7 November 1938 by Dr. K. M. Munshi, with the support of Mahatma Gandhi. The trust programmes through its 119 centres in India, 7 centres abroad and 367 constituent institutions, cover "all aspects of life from the cradle to the grave and beyond – it fills a growing vacuum in modern life", as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru observed when he first visited the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in 1950.

Career

He used to be an Associate Professor at Truman State University [3] and an Assistant Professor at Northwest Missouri State University and worked on theories of conflict and hostage negotiations. [2] Rao has served on the executive council of the Hindu American Foundation [1] and has received grants from Rajiv Malhotra's Infinity Foundation. [4]

Truman State University University in Missouri, United States

Truman State University is a public university in Kirksville, Missouri.. It had 6,379 enrolled students in the fall of 2015, with 6,039 undergraduate and 340 postgraduate students, pursuing degrees in 50 undergraduate, and eight graduate programs.

Northwest Missouri State University United States historic place

Northwest Missouri State University is a public university in Maryville, Missouri. Founded in 1905 as a teachers college, its campus is based on the design for Forest Park at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and is the official Missouri State Arboretum. The school is governed by a state-appointed Board of Regents and headed by President John Jasinski.

Hindu American Foundation Hindu American advocacy organization

The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) is a Hindu American advocacy group founded on September 3, 2003 and headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.. HAF is involved in the areas of human rights, civil rights and education among others.

Works

Discussing his forthcoming book Secular Gods'Blame Hindu Demons'in 2000, Ramesh Rao said of his aim to counter the plethora of criticism of the Sangh Parivar and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), that had been published after the destruction of the Babri Mosque in 1992 through a "programmatic and sustained campaign of vilification and demonization". [5]

The Sangh Parivar refers, as an umbrella term, to the collection of Hindu nationalist organisations spawned by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and remain affiliated to it. These include the political party Bharatiya Janata Party, religious organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad, students union Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, religious militant group Bajrang Dal and the worker's union Bharatiya Kishan Sangh. It is also often taken to include allied organisations such as the Shiv Sena, which share the ideology of the RSS. The Sangh Parivar represents the Hindu nationalist movement of India.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Hindu nationalist organisation in India

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, abbreviated as RSS, is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of the ruling party of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party. The RSS is the progenitor and leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar, which have presence in all facets of the Indian society. Founded on 27 September 1925, the RSS is the world's largest voluntary organisation. It is the largest NGO in the world, while the BJP is the largest political party in the world.

Ramesh Rao co-edited Gujarat after Godhra - Real Violence, Selective Outrage (2003) with Koenraad Elst; it includes a critique of a Human Rights Watch report that claimed complicity of the state in the 2002 Gujarat communal violence. [6]

Koenraad Elst Right wing Hindutva activist

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Human Rights Watch New York City-based non-governmental organisation

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Reception

Martha Nussbaum has found it strange that Rao and his co-authors spent a lot of space in defending the history and politics of the RSS, which was supposedly unconnected to the IDRF. Much of the book is also devoted to personal attacks on the authors of the Sabrang report, with labels such as "Lies, More Lies and Noting But Lies," as well as their caricature as leftist intellectuals with Pakistani connections. Much of Rao's writings are found by Nussbaum to contain digressions and tirades that have little to do with the subject instead of calmly presenting information that allow the readers to judge for themselves. [7]

Martha Nussbaum American philosopher and academic

Martha Craven Nussbaum is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosophy department. She has a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, feminism, and ethics, including animal rights. She also holds associate appointments in classics, divinity, and political science, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a board member of the Human Rights Program. She previously taught at Harvard and Brown.

He also has sympathetic connections to the politicians of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Rao, Ramesh Nagaraj. "Welcome to the website of Dr. Ramish N. Rao" . Retrieved 2012-03-21.
  2. 1 2 Putnam, Linda; Roloff, Michael (1992). "Back Matter". Communication and Negotiation. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Books. doi:10.4135/9781483325880.
  3. ↑ Sitaram, K. S.; Prosser, Michael H.; Prosser, Michael (1998). Civic Discourse: Multiculturalism, Cultural Diversity, and Global Communication. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 491. ISBN   9781567504101.
  4. ↑ Dr. Ramesh Rao's Research Concerning Media Bias in Recent U.S. Reporting of India, Infinity Foundation, retrieved 2015-03-28
  5. ↑ Chalasani 2001.
  6. ↑ Witte, John; Green, M. Christian (2011-11-25). Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 357. ISBN   9780199733446.
  7. ↑ Nussbaum 2008, pp. 313-314.
  8. ↑ Nussbaum 2008, p. 248.
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