Is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) a secretive fraternity with its own idea of India? Questions abound as it seeks to mainstream itself.

Unlike RSS, Muslim Brotherhood has international influence, faced persecution and embodies resistance

The arrest of activists on the opposite pole of the RSS actuates the Supreme Court into action

With 6000 Pracharaks and 15-20 lakh participants, RSS has about 70000 shakhas across the nation besides 60 lakh alumni and affiliate volunteers.

RSS women face the same negation in discourse that all women meet at workplaces

Walter K. Andersen, a professor who has studied the right-wing organisation for over five decades, speaks about the workings of the RSS and its growing influence on Indian society and politics.

The Congress president’s harangues can only invite ridicule and derision

The RSS is incapable of a nationalism that arises from a feeling of inclusiveness

A year after Gauri Lankesh's murder, the trail of a network of radical Hindu right-wing operatives that investigators in Karnataka have been piecing together now appears to be widening, and their paths criss-crossing.

As DMK chief, Stalin has to keep his flock together, set an agenda and meet challenges

Mango-seed poisoning kills three adivasis in an Odisha village

K. Chandrasekhar Rao wants to dissolve the state assembly and opt for early elections. He has had successive meetings within his cabinet, followed by extended party meets attended by off­ice-bearers, MPs and MLAs in New Delhi.

Brian Dermot Kharpran Daly, founder of the Meghalaya Adventurers’ Association in the early 1990s, and his team have discovered more than 1,700 caves so far. These include the ‘Fairy Cave’— Krem Puri—the world’s longest sandstone cave measured to an astonishing 24.5 km, nearly three times that of Mt Everest.

Was the deluge so terrible because of poor planning and meddling with ­nature? Environmental concerns must come to the fore as Kerala rebuilds.

Journalists small and mighty suffered the Emergency defiantly, then resisted and defeated plans to muzzle the press. We look towards their example in gathering dusk.

Donald Trump’s many detract­ors are now putting together their energy and resources, busy collecting evidence that could successfully carry through an impeachment motion in the Senate and unseat him.

International tariff, currency and investment wars are hitting the rupee even if India is not a direct player in the churning.

With prodigies regularly coming off the assembly line, Chennai is still the chess capital of India

The Adishakti group brings alive a myth from the Ramayana

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In Outlook this week, executive editor Satish Padmanabhan writes a diary on his visit to Hampi and the 'Holy side and Hippie side' of it.

Why members of India's archery squad are required to visit crematoria at night to Bombay High Court's 'Baywatch' reference on need to adopt modern means. Read this and much more in this week's The Subcontinental Menu.

The Bahmanis, Vijayanagara, Shivaji...a fine history of the Deccan bristles with cruel and grand potentates, frustrated Mughals and snooty Persians

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