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Where was the RSS on India’s Republic Day? 

Part -1 India celebrates her ‘Republic Day’ on 26 January each year. Less known is the fact that from 1930 to 1947, this day was observed as ‘Independence Day’. Critics of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (hereafter Sangh) accuse the organization …

What media said about RSS’ contribution in Covid relief efforts

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) is known for its relief work during the period of natural disasters as well as other crisis. This is a compilation of some select media reports that give a glimpse of what RSS did during Covid Pandemic …

Kashmir and the RSS

Yesterday, in a debate “Poochhta hai Bharat” on Republic Bharat TV conducted by Arnab Goswami, a fake Kashmiri Hindu supporter said, “Kashmiri Pandits are our brothers, you are most welcome, come stay at my home. What has Sangh to do …

How RSS deals with Bharatiya Caste conundrum

A recent statement by Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) Mohan Bhagwat on casteism in Bharat was misinterpreted. What Bhagwat said in a function at Mumbai on the 647th birth anniversary social reformer Sant Shiromani Ravidas was, “ Scholars who …

How RSS helped save ‘Darbar Sahib’ twice and upheld Hindu-Sikh unity

Connection between RSS and Sikhs has a historical context — during partition, RSS saved lives of many Sikhs & protected people in Punjab from onslaught of Muslim league-led mobs. The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), an apex religious body of …

Why the saffron flag is revered as ‘guru’ & worshipped by RSS swayamsevaks

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) celebrates six festivals every year And one of them is called ‘Guru Purnima’. On this day, the RSS swayamsevaks worship their ‘Guru’-The Saffron Flag. More importantly around this day, every RSS Shakha organises, ‘Guru Dakshina …

RSS and Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination: Myth vs Facts

Around half an hour after the assassination of  Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948, at 5:45 P.M.,  a First Information Report was lodged in the Tuglak Road Police station in New Delhi area.  The FIR starts with a brief statement …