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TopicSwayamsevak

Topic: Swayamsevak

Why RSS has chosen to remind Modi-Shah of its key role in BJP’s big election wins

D.K. Singh -
Manmohan Vaidya’s remark at an RSS conclave evokes a sense of deja vu. Remember Mohan Bhagwat saying 2014 election win ‘wasn’t about one man’?

‘RSS is family’ and what to do with non-Hindus: An RSS trainee’s camp notebook

Walter Andersen -
Many RSS camp participants keep notebooks, in which they record the words of patriotic songs, take notes on physical exercises, and games.

Argumentative & individualist – Why Modi was an unusual RSS swayamsevak

Swapan Dasgupta -
Whereas many RSS apparatchiks were grounded in inherited certitudes, Modi was forever pushing the frontiers of his own intellectual development.

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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