The Chief Minister said the government has invited global tenders to select a leading hotel chain to operate the prime tourism property professionally, ensuring optimal revenue generation and preservation of the asset.
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At a Rs 420 crore cost, critics doubt whether the current caste survey can produce actionable data.
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A fiercely competitive, multi-cornered election will be held for the Budgam Assembly seat on November 11.
Both BJP and JDU — the two main NDA partners — are contesting 101 seats each and have selected just 13 women each (12.9 per cent per party).
For sixty years, Parsiana has documented the everyday and the extraordinary within the Parsi world — from births and weddings to debates on faith, identity and change. As the magazine prepares to close this month, it leaves behind an unmatched record of a community that has both preserved and transformed its traditions.
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Of these, the RSS has not only survived but has grown and with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in power at the Centre and in several states.
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An organisation that takes pride in being rock solid in times of liquid modernity, can it catch up with the change?
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In an interview with the Outlook, Ram Madhav explains that while the RSS views India as a Hindu nation, it prioritises qualifications over religion for leadership roles, and he discusses the organisation’s positions on Hindu Rashtra, caste, reservations, women, Adivasis and insights from his new book.
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It is clear that the very foundation of the RSS was laid to show Muslims their place and keep them in check.
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Has the RSS converted social feeling into the Hindu religious identity?
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The RSS thrives on OBC amnesia, offering borrowed pride in Hindu identity in exchange for complete obedience
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Organisations like the RSS pretend to promote ‘harmony’, but in truth, they maintain the caste hierarchy. There is no path to liberation for Dalits within Hindutva.
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Shared ideas and unimaginable patience in its ambitious mission, along with uncontested moral upbringing of its cadres, has ensured the success of the RSS
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It is ironical that the more the Modi-Shah duo cut the RSS to size, the more it becomes the punching bag for the anti-BJP forces.
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For decades, a substantial number of women have been working in all the RSS-inspired organisations, with several of them holding prominent posts and playing leadership roles. The numbers are only going up.
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Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, revered within the RSS and reviled outside it, remains one of the most polarising figures in modern India
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) completed 100 years in 2025. The centenary celebrations highlighted the Sangh’s activities over the years and its vision for the future
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Tamil Nadu has more temples than any other state in India, but has refused to endorse a single religion supremacy.
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In Chennai, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) made a start in 1939. The organisation has continued to grow in Tamil Nadu, with its share of ups and downs over the last eight decades. North Tamil Nadu Joint Prachar Pramukh Dr K. Gopalakrishnan and RSS Media Co-ordinator Chandrasekaran spoke to Lalita Iyer about the organisation’s trajectory in the state. Excerpts:
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Kerala, long resistant to Hindutva politics, paradoxically hosts more Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) shakhas than most Indian states today
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A focus on local, cultural and political realities appears to be the strategy being deployed by both the RSS and the BJP to gain a stronger foothold in Karnataka
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At Rashtra Sevika Samiti shakhas, women are offered empowerment—but only to a certain extent. Their roles remain largely defined: mothers, cultural custodians and loyal citizens
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RSS’ Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram works in the fields of education, health and rural development. However, the cultural homogeneity of tribals as Hindus is at the core of its agenda
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New histories, social work and indigenous faith revivalism have been the three pillars of the RSS’ approach in Northeast India, where ‘national integration’ and Hinduisation are their top agenda
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The RSS is trying to bring the Northeastern communities into a broader Hindu fold by inventing cultural connections and by reinterpreting historical events through a religious lens
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