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'''Dinanath Mishra''' (or '''Dina Nath Mishra'''; 1937–2013) was an Indian journalist and writer belonging to the [[Hindutva|Hindu nationalist]] movement. He authored a seminal work ''RSS: Myth and Reality'' on the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS) from a nationalist point of view. He was elected to the Upper House of the [[Indian Parliament]] ([[Rajya Sabha]]) and served a five-year term.<br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
Mishra was born in 1937 in [[Gaya (India)|Gaya]], [[Bihar]]. His father was Indranath Mishra. He had to struggle during his early life, working as a child labourer, but would eventually complete his education and earn a Master of Arts degree. He also became a volunteer (''[[swayamsevak]]'') of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS).<ref name=senior>{{cite news |title=Senior journalist, thinker Dinanath Mishra passes away |newspaper=News Bharati |date=13 November 2013 |url=http://www.newsbharati.com/Encyc/2013/11/13/Senior-Journalist-thinker-Dinanath-Mishra-passes-away.aspx#.VGZSLdJdWN8 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141116201103/http://www.newsbharati.com/Encyc/2013/11/13/Senior-Journalist-thinker-Dinanath-Mishra-passes-away.aspx%23.VGZSLdJdWN8 |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 November 2014 |accessdate=2014-11-14 }}</ref><br />
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He served as the editor of the RSS in-house newspaper ''[[Panchjanya]]'', from 1971 to 1974. Later, he moved to [[Navbharat Times]], heading its bureau in [[Delhi]] and, subsequently, its [[Patna]] edition.<ref name=senior/><ref name=former><br />
{{cite news |title=Former BJP Rajya Sabha MP Dinanath Mishra dies |newspaper=Business Standard |date=13 November 2013 |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/former-bjp-rajya-sabha-mp-dinanath-mishra-dies-113111301162_1.html |accessdate=2014-11-14}}<br />
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Having joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], he was elected as a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] from 1998 to 2004, during the [[Premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee]].<ref name=former/><br />
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Jointly with [[Balbir Punj]], he founded the India First Foundation, which published the magazine ''Eternal India'' (as well as its [[Hindi]]-language version ''Chirantan Bharat''). It also acquired an edited collection titled ''Sonia: The Unknown'' (''Sonia ka sach'' in Hindi), which includes biographical details of [[Sonia Gandhi]] and raises questions based on her foreign origin.<ref name=sharpen><br />
{{cite news |title=BJP using book on Sonia to sharpen attack |newspaper=Times of India |date=4 April 2004 |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/BJP-using-book-on-Sonia-to-sharpen-attack/articleshow/599622.cms |accessdate=2014-11-16}}<br />
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{{cite news |author=Jawed Naqvi |title=Poetic justice in the Bofors affair |newspaper=Tehelka |date=17 April 2004 |url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main1.asp?filename=op041704poetic.asp |accessdate=2014-11-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129044948/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main1.asp?filename=op041704poetic.asp |archivedate=29 November 2014 }}<br />
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{{cite news |title=Tribute to Dinanath Mishra |newspaper=Organiser |date=14 December 2013 |url=http://organiser.org/Encyc/2013/12/14/Tribute-to-Dinanath-Mishra.aspx?NB=&lang=4&m1=&m2=&p1=&p2=&p3=&p4=&PageType=N |accessdate=2014-11-17}}<br />
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Mishra died on 12 November 2013. He is survived by his wife, son and three daughters.<ref name=former/><br />
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Senior BJP leader [[Balbir Punj]] called him a true swayamsevak dedicated to the cause of [[Hindutva]]. [[Rakesh Sinha]] of the India Policy Foundation called him a cultural nationalist that served and "survived in a secularist atmosphere."<ref name=senior/><br />
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== Publications ==<br />
'''English'''<br />
* ''RSS: Myth and Reality'' (Vikas, 1980), {{ISBN|0706910206}}.<br />
'''Hindi'''<br />
* ''Hara-hara vyangye'' (Prabhata Prakasana, 1999), {{ISBN|8173152942}}.<br />
* ''Pāpī vota ke lie'' (in Hindi, Pratibha Pratishthana, 2002), {{ISBN|8188266078}}<br />
* ''Chaploosi Rekha'' (Prabhat Prakashan), {{ISBN|8188139270}}.<br />
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Mishra's ''RSS: Myth and Reality'' is an early work on RSS and puts forward the RSS point of view. It is often cited in academic sources for this reason. According to Mishra, RSS believes that modernity destroys cultural identity and suffocates [[dharma]] and divides the Hindu people. "Signs of disintegration appear in the family, village and communal life" in the words of [[Dattopant Thengadi]]. Mishra says, "the ersatz, sloganistic secularism has done great harm to the nation."<ref name=stories><br />
{{cite book |first1=Joshua J. |last1=Yates |first2=James Davidson |last2=Hunter |chapter=Fundamentalism: When History goes Awry |editor=Joseph E. Davis |title=Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2002 |isbn=0791451917 |p=143}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://openlibrary.org/publishers/India_First_Foundation Books published by India First Foundation at openlibrary.org]<br />
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