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The RSS: What It Lies About, and the Truth About It

How does the RSS convince some people that it does apolitical work? Watch this discussion to know exactly how one of the most powerful private informal organisations in the country functions.
How does the RSS convince some people that it does apolitical work? Watch this discussion to know exactly how one of the most powerful private informal organisations in the country functions.
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Professor Mridula Mukherjee, historian and former director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Purushottam Agrawal, distinguished writer, literary critic, historian of ideas and public intellectual and Dr Shilpi Tiwari, a senior surgeon, join the well-known senior advocate in the Supreme Court, Kapil Sibal, for a discussion on whether Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is telling the whole truth when it calls itself a cultural organisation – and whether that self-description includes or excludes politics. The remarkable feature of the interaction is the presence of a guest who has spent over three decades within the Sangh Parivar, who interactions over the course of this conversation with leading figures who have watched it from the outside. 

This article went live on August thirty-first, two thousand twenty six, at forty-five minutes past eleven at night.

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