Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
RSS and Bhagat Singh: From Derision to Appropriation
The RSS, which consciously kept aloof from the glorious freedom struggle, finds itself in a peculiar bind: it has to brandish itself as the sole repository of nationalism, but it lacks an authentic icon of freedom to call its own. To rid itself of this embarrassing lacuna, it resorts to appropriating figures like Bhagat Singh, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the ideology the Sangh espouses.