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, ...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat leaves after offering prayers to Goddess Durga during his visit to the Kanaka Durga temple, in Vijayawada.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat during the birth centenary closing ceremony of late RSS leader and journalist Manik Chandra Vajpayee, in New Delhi.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat releases a publication on late RSS leader and journalist Manik Chandra Vajpayee during the birth centenary closing ceremony of the l...
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat pays tribute to former president and veteran Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee who passed away at an army hospital on Monday, at his residence in New Delhi.
In this file photo, former president Pranab Mukherjee with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat and other leaders at the closing ceremony of ‘Tritiya Varsha Sang...
In this file photo, former president Pranab Mukherjee with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat at the birthplace of RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, in Nagpur...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat salutes after hoisting the Tricolour on the occasion of the 74th Independence Day, at RSS headquarters in Nagpur.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, right during the groundbreaking ceremony of a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Ram, i...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, performs the groundbreaking ceremony of a temple dedicated to the god Ram, watched by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, r...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat during the foundation stone laying ceremony of Ram Temple, at Ram Janambhoomi site in Ayodhya.
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
