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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicDattopant Thengadi

Topic: Dattopant Thengadi

Back from RSS headquarters, PM Modi has a tricky choice to make—Trump vs Thengadi

Modi can’t let Trump’s words and actions dent this public image. Politics aside, agreeing to the US president’s demands would mean a repudiation of what Thengadi stood for.

Dattopant Thengadi — activist MP from RSS who shaped ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ idea decades ago

On Dattopant Thengadi’s birth centenary, Mohan Bhagwat is set to release a book today on the RSS stalwart who had laid the foundation of Sangh’s economic philosophy.

No, Ambedkar was not impressed by RSS or in an alliance with it. Arun Anand is wrong

Arun Anand claimed Ambedkar was impressed by RSS and his party formed a pre-poll alliance with Bharatiya Jana Sangh before 1952 Madhya Pradesh elections.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.