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   Century-old and Unaccountable: The Case for Registering the RSS India's most powerful civil organisation cloaks itself in informality. A democracy that tolerates such opacity from an entity of such influence is only asking for trouble. HYDERABAD  ·  Jun 18, 2026 There is a reliable Indian tradition of powerful organisations invoking ancient precedent to escape modern accountability. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which celebrated its centenary last year, has mastered this art. Asked why it remains unregistered under any Indian law, its chief, Mohan Bhagwat, replied with a question of his own: should the RSS have registered with the British, against whom its founder was fighting? The rhetorical flair is admirable. The logic is embarrassing. India has been a sovereign republic for 77 years. That is a long time to forget to fill out the paperwork. The RSS occupies a position in Indian public life without parallel. It claims millions of participants, operates tens o...

  Religion & Power in India The Architects of Chaos The Brahminical Role and the Riddle of Morality How the custodians of Hinduism built a theology of convenient truths — and what it cost the civilisation they claimed to protect   HYDERABAD   |   Special Report I n the long history of organised religion, few questions are as disorienting as a simple one posed by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar at the opening of his seminal work Riddles in Hinduism: why is a Hindu a Hindu? A Parsi can answer in a sentence. A Muslim can answer in five words. A Christian's answer fits on a bumper sticker. Ask a Hindu, and the question opens into a labyrinth — of competing gods, contradictory scriptures, incompatible philosophies, and a social order that claims divine sanction while being visibly constructed by human hands. This is not an accident. It is, Ambedkar argued, the product of a sustained and largely successful project of institutional design — one whose architect...

  The Cracks in America's Sanctions Empire: How China Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Trade For decades, Washington could tell the world who it could do business with. That era may be ending. Chuppala Nagesh Bhushan A Routine Blacklisting That Wasn't On April 24, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department added five Chinese oil refineries to its sanctions list — punishment for purchasing Iranian crude oil in violation of American restrictions. On paper, it looked like business as usual. Since the 1990s, the United States has imposed economic sanctions more than any other country in history. By 2024, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) maintained sanctions programs targeting over 20 countries , more than 9,000 individuals and entities , and used this tool more than 10 times as often as it did two decades ago. The dollar's dominance — it accounts for roughly 58% of global foreign exchange reserves and underpins nearly 88% of all international trade ...

Caste Census: Foundation for Social Justice—Don't Let Political Promises Become Empty Rhetoric By T. Chiranjeevulu  IAS (Ret) , Founder and President BCIF (BC Intellectuals Forum) In the 79-year history of independent India, many critical issues have been debated. Land reforms, reservations, linguistically organised states, and economic reforms have shaped the nation's future. Yet one issue remains unresolved—one directly connected to social justice:  the caste census . Other backward classes (OBCs), who constitute the largest percentage of India's population, have demanded for decades that their actual population figures and socio-economic conditions be officially recorded. Yet political parties have used this issue as an election promise only to retreat once in power. The History of Caste Census Caste-based data collection in India is not new. British rulers initiated caste enumeration in the census from 1881 onward. The 1931 census was the last to comprehensive...