The nationwide study on the status of women conducted by Pune-based Drishti Stree Adhyayan Prabodhan Kendra, with the help of 26 social action groups including 15 national organisations active in diverse fields, has stirred a discussion in the country over the programmes and policies being formulated and implemented about women both by the governments and voluntary organisations. Organiser, spoke to Dr. Man ...

Excerpts from Shri Guruji's interviews Following are the views of Pujaniya Shri Guruji, the 2nd Sarsanghachalak of RSS, on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir, expressed on various occasions…... (With the Editor, Organiser, October 1967)  Government does not seem to know what is to be done next in Kashmir. It does not want to lose Kashmir and it does not know how to keep it! Ans. There is only one way to keep Ka ...

Mumtaz Ali Khan, popularly known as Sri M, world-renowned spiritual leader, author, thinker and educationist hails from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His forefathers were Pashtuns, who moved from Peshawar to erstwhile Travancore as bodyguards to the Maharaja. He was born in 1948 in a fairly affluent family. At the age of 19, he joined the Ramakrishna Mission at Belur Math, without informing his parents, after ...

Edited excerpts from an interview with Dr. Manmohan Vaidya Ji, Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh, RSS…… On the perception that RSS is a Brahmin-led organization It is a wrong impression, a politically motivated allegation. People associated with the Sangh do not think and feel so. We have all sections of Hindu society leading the RSS movement at different levels - from the grassroots to national. When we say ...

In the last few decades the world has been grappling with one or the other kind of economic crisis. Should India go on following the Western concepts of development or is there any need to search for a new alternative? Some thinkers have been trying to evolve an Indian (Bharatiya) model but due to the impact of West and some kind of lobbies in the intellectual arena nothing substantial has come about. An em ...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue Swaminathan Gurumurthy discusses India with Rediff.com…….. Do you feel running a corruption-free government is Narendra Modi’s biggest achievement? It is a fundamental achievement. Modi cannot hope to do anything unless he runs an honest government. It was believed as something not possible in India. But Narendra Modi showed that it was possible. This is his fundamental ...

Born in 1980 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Nouf Bint Mohammad Al Marwaai is an inspiring personality in many ways. As an influential Saudi entrepreneur, she pioneered the practice of Yoga and Ayurveda in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other West Asian countries which were not exposed to the world of India’s great gifts to humankind till then. Nouf is perhaps the first Saudi professional lady to visit India to st ...

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Veteran Sangh Pracharak Shri Dhanprakash Ji is believed to be the oldest Pracharak in the RSS today. After becoming a swayamsevak in 1942 in Delhi and then fully dedicating himself to the cause of motherland as a Pracharak in 1943, he is witness to various developments in the rise of RSS during the last seven decades. He is now 100, and is still fit and active. His vigour and strong will power can be unders ...

There are several theories about what the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) believes in, and they are variously employed to interpret the actions and intentions of the Sangh and its affiliate bodies across the country. A proper assessment of its ideas is important not only because it is a massive organization that arguably holds sway over right-wing thought in India but also because of its increasing promin ...