If you have time on your hands and want to hone your special interests, why not join a club or a society? There are plenty of choices these...
If you have time on your hands and want to hone your special interests, why not join a club or a society? There are plenty of choices these days. If you are interested in community service, there is the Rotary Club or the Lions Club. Looking to mix fitness with pleasure? Try the Laughter Yoga Club. Want to expand your mind? There are plenty of book clubs cropping up in the cities.
Or you could just join the Hindu Ecosystem. Becoming a member is very simple. You fill in a form and join, no application fee. On November 16, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra, best known for making inflammatory speeches on the eve of communal violence in North East Delhi this year, tweeted out a link to the membership form.
By the next day, he was claiming 18,000 members had been added.
‘Special interests’
It is not yet clear what the activities of the Ecosystem team are. Mishra tweeted that it would “work on ground and on social media and in courts for the Dharma and for each other”.
The membership form asks you to specify whether you would be joining the team “online” or “on the ground” or both. It also asks you to name a “special...