Ashok Rane

He placed Sangh ideology above personal and family considerations. After the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was founded on Vijayadashami in 1925, its work spread across Nagpur and Vidarbha within a few years. Guru Pujan festivals and Sangh camps were launched, and expansion activities gathered momentum. RSS founder Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar aimed to spread Sangh work across Maharashtra and other provinces. As a result, 1939–1940 became a crucial period for the organisation's growth....

Every Republic Day, anti-RSS groups repeat the claim that RSS swayamsevaks do not respect the tricolour and question why it was not hoisted at the RSS’s Reshimbagh office. Yet, they rarely raise the same question about other religious, cultural organisations or political parties. A Muslim organisation called Tablighi Jamaat was founded in Mewat, Haryana, with its headquarters at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi. Was the tricolour ever hoisted there? Similarly, Shiv Sena’s office, Sena Bhavan, has...

Turning one reference into a grand historical narrative undermines the integrity of truth and history. For decades, certain self-proclaimed scholars and fake pandits have sought to confuse society by promoting false ideas and distorted history. During the pre-Independence period, the British, particularly Christian missionaries, laid the groundwork for these narratives. After Independence, they were carried forward by some left-leaning writers, intellectuals, BAMSCEF-linked communists, covert...