RSS-BJP split?
THERE is no way the BJP will (or, indeed, can) split from the RSS. Splits are between equals. The BJP is a creature of the RSS. Without it the BJP…
RSS in Kashmir
THE land we have known and loved faces today a real existential threat. It stands at the very brink of a precipice. A single wrong step and Kashmir will be…
Stealing Indian icons, RSS style
What’s with this obsession among powerful men with grand monuments? The biggest, largest and tallest…the more insecure a leader, the more grandiloquent is his vision of his legacy. Perhaps Freud…
RSS presence
Prior to the Srinagar assembly elections in 2014, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — which created Jan Sangh in 1951 and controls its successor, the BJP — declared from the…
RSS in Kashmir
ANY thaw in relations between India and Pakistan is always warmly welcomed in Indian Kashmir. The people know that they suffer when differences between the governments of the two countries…
Newsworthy RSS?
Hindutva crossed yet another red line in India on October 3 when the state-owned Doordarshan news channel made a live broadcast, for the first time ever, of the Vijayadashami (Dussehra)…
RSS, BJP & Modi
Narendra Modi’s anointment as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate shows that while the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has tightened its grip over its political front (the BJP) Modi…
RSS & Indian democracy
THE Bharatiya Jan Sangh is `the illegitimate child of the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh],` Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said on Jan 5, 1952. The Jan Sangh was set up on…
BJP`s RSS anchor
In the last few days, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have been going through the motions of a subordinate`s bid for slightly greater power…
Negative peace: what next?
After the brief but climactic war and its resolution on May 10, which ended in a clear Pakistani victory, India now sits in anger, licking its wounds and plotting its…
