by Ashish Malhotra | Jul 31, 2026 | Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), BJP, BJP Party, education, Gen Z, Hindu Nationalism, India, Mainstream Media, Modi, Narendra Modi, News Analysis, Organizing, Police Brutality, Protests
Clad in a black T-shirt and sporting slightly unkempt hair, Abhijeet Dipke conducted the massive crowd in front of him. As they waved a sea of Indian flags to the beat of the music, he stood over them waving one back. The song they were all singing, “Maa Tujhe Salaam,” is one of India’s most patriotic, released by A.R. Rahman in 1997 to mark the country’s 50th year of independence.
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by Meghnad Bose | Nov 14, 2025 | Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), BJP, Donald Trump, far right, Foreign Agents Registration Act, Hindu Nationalism, Hindu Supremacy, India, Lobbying, Narendra Modi, News, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s largest Hindu far-right organization, initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year, a Prism investigation has found. Prism is the first news outlet to report that Squire Patton Boggs, one of the top lobbying firms in the U.S., registered as a lobbyist on Jan. 16 for the RSS, according to lobbying disclosures.
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