PATNA: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said India was a “Hindu nation” and therefore no constitutional ...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said India is a “Hindu nation” and does not require any constitutional approval for such a declaration, as it is a “truth”. Addressing a ...

Patna: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat asserted that India was a "Hindu nation”, and so no constitutional approval was needed as it was the “truth”. Addressing a 'Social Harmony Seminar and Dialogue Programme ...

Organisers say 3,800 volunteers participated in Thursday's event [BBC] The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu nationalist organisation whose work played a large role in propelling Indian ...

Once meant to teach unity in diversity, Republic Day tableaux now increasingly foreground Hindu symbols as national symbols, ...

This is the first installment in RD’s latest series, “What in the What??,” in which our experts offer insight into religious political movements currently shaping our world. Some contemporary Hindu ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Press Information Bureau-Prime Minister’s ...

BIRGUNJ, NEPAL — Samsad Ali was at his grocery shop in April on the day of Hanuman Jayanti, a Hindu festival that celebrates Lord Hanuman, a central figure in the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. It was the ...

Hindutva’s traditionalist stances seem to have peaked, or at least begun to incorporate elements of a more liberal worldview. An Indian rural woman works on a laptop in a traditional kitchen, showing ...

NEW DELHI, INDIA — Perhaps the most striking first impression for any visit to India, the world’s most populous nation and most complicated democracy, is the traffic. Even in the nation’s capital the ...