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The RSS Project is out now! Explore the network map here: For a deeper reflection on why such an intervention is necessary, see Felix Pal’s (Felix Pal) essay, “Exposing the largest far-right network in history”, read here:

The RSS Project is out now! Explore the network map here: For a deeper reflection on why such an intervention is necessary, see Felix Pal’s (Felix Pal) essay, “Exposing the largest far-right network in history”, read here:

104,329 views • 6 months ago

Seeing the Sangh is the world’s first comprehensive map of the organisational affiliates surrounding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh—which together constitute the largest far-right network in the world. This interactive dataset, which currently includes comprehensive qualitative and quantitative data on over two thousand and five hundred organisations, is stored at a repository housed at the Science Po’s Centre for International Studies (CERI), and has been fact-checked and published by The Caravan. It will be available soon. Tags: [#SeeingTheSangh #rss100years]

Seeing the Sangh is the world’s first comprehensive map of the organisational affiliates surrounding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh—which together constitute the largest far-right network in the world. This interactive dataset, which currently includes comprehensive qualitative and quantitative data on over two thousand and five hundred organisations, is stored at a repository housed at the Science Po’s Centre for International Studies (CERI), and has been fact-checked and published by The Caravan. It will be available soon. Tags: [#SeeingTheSangh #rss100years]

78,633 views • 6 months ago

At the middle of the Gadkari family's sprawling agro-business empire is Rembal Agro, a beef company that has quietly risen to international prominence. Rehan Ahmed Qureshi, a Nagpur resident who managed operations on the ground for Rembal, told The Caravan’s former staff writer, Kaushal Shroff, that he entered the business because he believed Gadkari’s ownership would offer a measure of safety. In March 2022, one of the beef exporter’s trucks was seized by the Maharashtra police in Lonavala. The case left a large hole in Rehan’s pocket and he described going to the Gadkari household three or four times, to meet the minister’s son, Nikhil Gadkari. Each time, Nikhil gave him empty assurances. Rehan was cut loose, and disappointed. And here lies the issue. Nothing the Gadkaris are doing is patently illegal, apart from perhaps false advertising. But, while the companies’ owners derive steep profits from selling beef, which contributes the single largest portion of Rembal’s revenue, the histrionic cow-protection politics the Bharatiya Janata Party unleashed has ended up criminalising Muslim workers of their own enterprises. Read the entire report by Shroff: #nitingadkari #beef

At the middle of the Gadkari family's sprawling agro-business empire is Rembal Agro, a beef company that has quietly risen to international prominence. Rehan Ahmed Qureshi, a Nagpur resident who managed operations on the ground for Rembal, told The Caravan’s former staff writer, Kaushal Shroff, that he entered the business because he believed Gadkari’s ownership would offer a measure of safety. In March 2022, one of the beef exporter’s trucks was seized by the Maharashtra police in Lonavala. The case left a large hole in Rehan’s pocket and he described going to the Gadkari household three or four times, to meet the minister’s son, Nikhil Gadkari. Each time, Nikhil gave him empty assurances. Rehan was cut loose, and disappointed. And here lies the issue. Nothing the Gadkaris are doing is patently illegal, apart from perhaps false advertising. But, while the companies’ owners derive steep profits from selling beef, which contributes the single largest portion of Rembal’s revenue, the histrionic cow-protection politics the Bharatiya Janata Party unleashed has ended up criminalising Muslim workers of their own enterprises. Read the entire report by Shroff: #nitingadkari #beef

25,287 views • 2 months ago

“‘I want to be an autonomous woman,’ I kept saying to everybody”: Romila Thapar on life, teaching and what led her to history Hartosh Singh Bal (Hartosh Singh Bal), The Caravan’s executive editor, speaks to Thapar in this interview about the book, her early years, teaching at the Centre for Historical Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, reactions to her work as a public intellectual, and her approach to history. Watch here: Visit for the full video. Subscribe now for access.

“‘I want to be an autonomous woman,’ I kept saying to everybody”: Romila Thapar on life, teaching and what led her to history Hartosh Singh Bal (Hartosh Singh Bal), The Caravan’s executive editor, speaks to Thapar in this interview about the book, her early years, teaching at the Centre for Historical Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, reactions to her work as a public intellectual, and her approach to history. Watch here: Visit for the full video. Subscribe now for access.

15,270 views • 1 month ago

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed RSS as the world's largest non-governmental organization (NGO), a lesser-known fact is that the RSS is not a registered entity. Despite controlling a significant portfolio of properties, its name does not appear on the official paperwork for those assets. This unique structure is seen by many as a strategic measure to avoid legal challenges and maintain a degree of operational ambiguity. In this episode of #TheCaravanBaatcheet, staff writer Amrita Singh (Amrita) talks to host Vishnu Sharma (V!shnu) about how the Sangh operates, the way it maintains control over its properties, and the possible motives behind its decision to remain an unregistered entity. Watch now to understand the inner workings and the hidden structure of this unaccountable organisation: #RSSorg #RSS100Years #SanghParivar

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed RSS as the world's largest non-governmental organization (NGO), a lesser-known fact is that the RSS is not a registered entity. Despite controlling a significant portfolio of properties, its name does not appear on the official paperwork for those assets. This unique structure is seen by many as a strategic measure to avoid legal challenges and maintain a degree of operational ambiguity. In this episode of #TheCaravanBaatcheet, staff writer Amrita Singh (Amrita) talks to host Vishnu Sharma (V!shnu) about how the Sangh operates, the way it maintains control over its properties, and the possible motives behind its decision to remain an unregistered entity. Watch now to understand the inner workings and the hidden structure of this unaccountable organisation: #RSSorg #RSS100Years #SanghParivar

32,711 views • 6 months ago

As we near #KarnatakaElections2023, read our May cover story on BL Santhosh, the BJP’s general secretary, his rise to power and how the generation of BJP and RSS karyakartas he has groomed are re-engineering Karnataka. Greeshma Kuthar reports:

As we near #KarnatakaElections2023, read our May cover story on BL Santhosh, the BJP’s general secretary, his rise to power and how the generation of BJP and RSS karyakartas he has groomed are re-engineering Karnataka. Greeshma Kuthar reports:

14,312 views • 3 years ago

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