Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) General Secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi pays floral tribute to Bharat Mata as Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat looks on during 'Ak...
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat during 'Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha-21', in Bengaluru
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrives to attend a book release function in New Delhi.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat at a book release function in New Delhi.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat releases a book during 'Ganga Samagrah' and 'Namami Gange Exhibition' at the VHP camp, in Prayagraj.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat with Shankaracharya Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati and President of Akhila Bharatiya Akhada Parishad Mahant Narendra Gi...
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat performs 'Ganga Pujan' during the ongoing 'Magh Mela' at Sangam, in Prayagraj.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat arrives to attend the 'Ganga Samagrah' and 'Namami Gange Exhibition', in Prayagraj.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat speaks during 'bhumi pujan' of Seva Sadan Bhavan, which will serve food and lodging for outstation patients and their family m...
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat hoists the National Flag on the 72nd Republic Day celebrations at Hedgewar Bhavan, in Ahmedabad
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat during inauguration of a building of Ramkali Devi Saraswati Vidya Mandir at Vrindavan, in Mathura district.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagawat pays floral tribute at the statue of Swami Vivekananda in Thiruvananthapuram.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat speaks during the inauguration of ‘Kesari Media Studies and Research Center’, in Kozhikode.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat speaks during the inauguration of ‘Kesari Media Studies and Research Center’, in Kozhikode.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat pays his respect to RSS leader MG Vaidya, who passed away yesterday, in Nagpur.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrives at railway station after attending a two-day meeting of RSS, in Prayagraj.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat arrives at Raja Bhoj International Airport in Bhopal.
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat performs 'Shastra Puja' during the celebration on the occasion of Dussehra festival, at RSS headquarter in Nagpur.
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat speaks during the celebration on the occasion of Dussehra, in Nagpur.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat being felicitated with a memento temple administrator MV Suresh Babu during his visit to Durga Malleswara Swamy Varla Temple, ...
Had meant to link it last week, but somehow forgot. The Economist on how the recent intervention by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is proof for many Indians that:
BJP is enslaved to bare-legged zealots obsessed with the idea that Hindu India is under attack: from Muslims, Chinese communists and American capitalists abroad and Muslims, Maoists and industrial developers at home...
It goes on to wonder whether the BJP can become a mellower yellow:
...The problem is the ideology and attendant nuttiness: Islamophobia, callisthenics, shorts and all. To lead its coalition government, the BJP had actually to forswear core Hindutva demands: for a new temple on the site of a demolished mosque at Ayodhya; for a federal ban on cow-slaughter; and for an end to Muslims’ enjoyment of their own family law.
This alienated party activists, who questioned the point of an ideology that has to be abandoned when it wins power. But to rule again, the BJP may have to distance itself even further from the RSS and find a more clubable leader.
Read the full piece: Shorts and all
