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Podcast: Bharatvaarta
Episode: Inside the RSS: How the Sangh Shapes Policy & Politics in Modern India | Sachin Nandha
Description: ⚔️ Sachin Nandha — Inside the RSS, Rashtra vs Raja & How Power Really Works in India 🇮🇳🧠
The RSS has never contested an election — yet it remains one of the most influential forces shaping modern India.
So what exactly is the RSS?
An ideology? An organisation? A movement?
Or something far more complex?
In this deep, nuanced, and often uncomfortable conversation, Sachin Nandha breaks down how the RSS actually functions — not as a conventional institution, but as a bottom-up social movement built around the daily shakha, psychological rootedness, and the long project of rebuilding the Rashtra.
We explore how the RSS creates citizens rather tha...