Communal Organisations

On the 50th anniversary of India’s formal ‘Emergency’, how the RSS betrayed the anti-emergency struggle

How the authoritarian proto-fascist RSS not only in a sense supported India’s formal Emergency (1975-77), filed mercy petitions for early release from prison but also –in sharp contrast—played no part in the fierce and challenging struggle for India’s freedom against colonial rule

CJP’s complaint against Kamlendu Sarkar: NCM asks DGP Assam for detailed report

The RSS leader had delivered an Islamophobic speech in December, 2020  

Student activists complain to Delhi Police about alleged attack by ABVP

Activist Rajveer Kaur filed the complaint after the public meeting, to mark International Women’s Day was disrupted

IPTA cancels theatre-event following opposition from Bajrang Dal

Members of the extremist group opposed two plays to be enacted in the event despite never having watched them; IPTA claims police ignored pleas for help

India needs a Battle for Love, a Satya Shodhak Resistance against RSS: Arundhati Roy

The battle of Love against Hate. A battle for Love. It must be militantly waged and beautifully won.

Have planted Godse on every street: Hindutva activist’s online threats

Hindutva activists are celebrating “Gandhi Vadh Divas”, threatening to kill any individual who follows the Gandhian principles

The identity of assassins of Mahatma Gandhi as disclosed by Sardar Patel

Let us compare the RSS claim of innocence in Gandhiji's assassination with the views of the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel on the perpetrators of this crime.

Patriotism, Religion and RSS Ideology

In Independent India people of all religions have contributed with equal zeal in the making of modern India, in all the fields of industry, education, sports, culture and what have you. Are they not patriots or nationalists?

I’m also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew: Gandhi’s memo to Mohan Bhagwat

The RSS chief selectively quoted and ‘interpreted’ Gandhi to ‘prove’ his own take that Hindus are ‘automatic patriots’

RSS worker confesses he spread anti-farmer-protests content at Singhu border

Caught by farmers near Delhi border, the worker confessed that he was told to discourage people from the protest by an RSS leader

On 72nd anniversary of the Indian Constitution

RSS mourned when Indian Constituent Assembly passed the democratic Constitution

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