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 …

This is the first of a two-part series tracing a little-known but crucial meeting between Indian revolutionaries in 1940 — at the edge of a world war, and the cusp of a forgotten uprising Maharaj’ Trailokya Nath Chakraborty mentions his visit to Nagpur, while he was touring north and central …

Ambedkar has outlived and outshone the Congress and its desiccated and warped ideology. First things first! Endorsing Dhananjay Keer’s monumental biography of Babasaheb Ambedkar, Veer Savarkar observed that Keer’s style was fascinating and that the biography was “so truthfully written.” “This life of Dr Ambedkar,” Savarkar wrote, “should be read …

Credible records and memoirs uncover the deeply sophisticated yet organic link between Hedgewar and Bengal’s revolutionary nationalists including Subhash Chandra Bose—putting a spotlight on their shared roots in anti-colonial struggle Let us continue with the memoirs of freedom fighter Jogesh Chatterjee in our effort to retrace the link between Dr …

As Narendra Modi embarks on his tour of Thailand and Sri Lanka, which have played a seminal civilisational role in the preservation and spread of Buddhism in ancient and modern times, the PM’s milestone achievements remain significant. Addressing a mammoth public meeting in Bhagalpur, Bihar, in February 2025, Prime Minister …

Like it has unfailingly done over the last many decades, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), that just concluded in Bengaluru, expressed its unequivocal solidarity with the beleaguered Hindus of Bangladesh. The ABPS issued a clarion call “to stand in solidarity with the Hindu society of Bangladesh” and …

We discussed revolutionary Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee’s mention of Doctorji’s close association with Anushilan Samiti. Chatterjee also mentions freedom fighter VV Athalye who was drawn into the Anushilan Samiti fold as a student of the National Medical College in Kolkata. The Anushilan Samiti imprint was clearly visible on Athalye’s actions when …