Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteers participate within the Hindu nationalist organisation’s centenary celebrations at Reshimbagh Floor in Nagpur on October 2, 2025.
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The biggest right-wing group on the planet is in India.
That group is an all-male, Hindu Nationalist group known as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. It is higher recognized by its acronym, the RSS.
Its aim is to undo the founding fathers’ imaginative and prescient of India as a secular nation, dwelling to individuals with many religions.
A few of its members and people of a few of its sister organizations have been implicated in – or accused of – instigating assaults in opposition to India’s Muslim and Christian minorities. Famously, a former RSS member assassinated some of the well-known Indians in historical past, Mohandas Gandhi, in 1948.
Critics say Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities is hostile to Muslims specifically and borrows from the group’s Hindu nationalist ideology.
The leaders of the motion not often speak to the Western press, which is why it was shocking when a lobbyist representing a kind of leaders requested NPR to arrange an interview.
The Basic Secretary of the RSS, roughly the second accountable for the group, Dattatreya Hosabale, was in Washington D.C. this week for a chat on the conservative assume tank the Hudson Institute.
NPR’s Rob Schmitz spoke with Hosabale to study why he was within the nation’s capital, and why he was talking with the press.
Take heed to the complete interview by clicking on the blue play button above.
