RSS’ ever-expanding march sharply contradicts the journey of communism in India, which is gasping for relevance in its ideological wilderness due to its estrangement from India’s civilisational ethos It will be useful to pursue the Indian communists a little further before we look at the meeting between Subhas Bose and …

One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most enduring achievements of the last 11 years is his emergence as Deendayal Upadhyaya’s true philosophical and political legatee As early as 1949, Deendayal Upadhyaya articulated the need for “economic, social, cultural as well as spiritual freedom”. Within each of these dimensions, he envisioned the fulfilment …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fundamental governance philosophy reflects Deendayal Upadhyaya’s thought and vision The 60th year of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya’s historic lectures that shaped the philosophy of Integral Humanism is being commemorated at a time when a BJP’s Prime Minister completes 11 years in office. Narendra Modi may not have …

From vilifying Subhas Bose to suppressing Hedgewar’s call for readiness, the communist record of betrayal and the Sangh’s steadfast resolve offer a study in contrasts during India’s freedom struggle In a short treatise, “Where are They: Communists under Communism”, philosopher Ram Swarup (1920-1998) observes that the “communist strategy is simple. It consists …

Balaji Huddar’s ideological volte face under communist influence reflected his distorted loyalties, which led him to vilify his former mentor Doctorji, who stayed true to his benevolence. Balaji Huddar’s transformation is a stark example of how communism distorts one’s thinking and approach. HV Seshadri writes, “By the end of December …

As we remember him on his birth anniversary, we see Rash Behari Bose and his legacy making a comeback in our national discourse “I mean no disrespect to Shri Rasa Bihari Basu [Rash Behari Bose]. But he went to Japan and became a citizen and national of Japan. He married …

Authentic records of Subhas Bose’s attempted meeting with Hedgewar expose the ideological manipulations of certain communists whose support to Partition echoed with Doctorji’s prescient warnings against partitionist forces On Subhas Bose’s attempted meeting with Doctorji in 1940, I would go with the records of that attempt documented by HV Seshadri, …

The pampering and patronising of a rogue state like Pakistan seems to be ingrained in Erdogan’s foreign policy Countries that have come out in support of Pakistan by opposing India’s right to retaliate through Operation Sindoor themselves possess a dubious record of democracy, human rights and constitutional governance. Azerbaijan has …

Prime Minister Modi has brought India a long way from those dark days of helplessness, wrong decisions, abdications, hesitations, and lack of self-faith India unleashed Operation Sindoor with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading from the front. India’s immediate response to it had the clear Modi imprint. On the one hand, …

Mohammed Iqbal, often hailed as the ideological founder of Pakistan, laid the groundwork for its politics of division. Asim Munir’s rhetoric today is a continuation of that legacy. The leader of Pakistan’s mercenary force, Asim Munir, delivered a series of rants in April—almost literally on the eve of the Pakistan-backed …

By floating the first indigenous political philosophy of Integral Humanism, Deendayal Upadhyaya set in motion an ideological evolution that would shape the destiny of India We shall briefly interrupt our many-sided exploration of a unique movement of thought, culture and social transformation that the RSS is on the occasion of …

We would do well to remember that Doctorji had grown up in a Nagpur that was intensely charged with the sentiments and feelings of revolution. One of RSS’ most iconic intellectuals, philosopher and mass organiser, Dattopant Thengadi (1920-2004), once Dr BR Ambedkar’s understudy, best describes that atmosphere in one of …

The imperative for this hour of trial, as called upon by PM Modi, is to firm up our resolve and our will to display our collective national will to stand as one nation. In the 121st episode of Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed the innermost emotions of …

This final part of the two-part article explores how, when India stood at the crossroads of World Wars, revolutionaries like Hedgewar contemplated a nationwide uprising   Earlier in October 1912, historian Uma Mukherjee tells us, in her opus ‘Two Great Indian Revolutionaries’, as a preparation for organising a mass uprising …