When the Call Comes
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 …
Ungrateful Turnaround
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 …
To Be Reborn To Carry On India’s Fight For Freedom – Tribute to Rash Behari Bose
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 …
Deceitful Distortions
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, …
Turkey And Pakistan: Leadership Of The Ummah
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 …
Operation Sindoor Heralds India’s Steady Emergence As A Responsible Power
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, …
Decoding Munir’s Outbursts: It All Leads Back To Iqbal’s Ideology
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 …
Entrenched in Indian Ethos
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 …
True to the Roots
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 …
Pahalgam And After: Collective Will Is Bedrock Of Collective Response
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 …
Lost Plot of Uprising
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 …
Bose, Hedgewar, and the War Within
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 …
Congress’s Failed Attempt To Marginalise Babasaheb Ambedkar
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 …
Bengal Revolutionaries and Doctorji
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 …