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Balasaheb Deoras: Key architect of RSS’ 100-year legacy

In an RSS training camp (Sangh Shiksha Varga) in 1943 at Pune, the then Sarsanghchalak, M.S. Golwalkar, popularly known as Guruji, stood up to introduce an RSS functionary who was going to deliver the ‘Bauddhik’ (intellectual discourse) that day. Guruji said, …

Role of RSS in Relief and Rehabilitation of Hindu Refugees After Partition

The Partition of India in 1947—creating the two nations of India and Pakistan—triggered one of the largest mass migrations in world history. Millions of Hindus and Sikhs were uprooted from their homes in West and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and …

A Century of RSS: Why Rashtraneeti Defines Its National Vision

The recent emphasis on “Rashtraneeti” articulated by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak (Chief mentor) Mohan Bhagwat during 100 Years of Sangh Journey: New Horizons, a two-day lecture series held in Bengaluru on November 8–9, 2025, marking the RSS’s centennial yearoffers …

The Great Intellectual Heist: How Marxist Scholars Are  taking credit for ‘Hindu Nationalism’

The irony couldn’t be lost. The Left, after being done and dusted in India both electorally and ideologically, has kicked off a new campaign for a new narrative. Hold your breath! The new narrative of the Left is that it …

Why RSS wants to celebrate 150 years of ‘Vande Mataram’

Around a week before the nation celebrated 150th anniversary of India’s national song ‘Vande Mataram’, on 7 November, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) called upon the nation and the society to celebrate the spirit of this song over the next year. …

Sardar Patel and the RSS: A Story That Needs to Be Retold 

India observes ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day)’ on 31 October every year to commemorate the birth anniversary of India’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who had played a crucial role in the …

RSS’ worldview on education goes much beyond rewriting history books

On the eve of Diwali this year, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat publicly stated that India needs to shed the “Macaulay Knowledge System” and return to its indigenous system. The so-called Macaulay system of education was formally imposed in …