Ganga and the Rivulet

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya likened Hedgewar to the Himalayas, which stand unshakable "amidst adversity of any kind or degree" and "just as the Himalayan glaciers melt and flow to the earth in the form of the holy Ganga, Doctor Sahib created another Ganga in the form of the Sangh

- ANIRBAN GANGULY

It will be useful to pursue the Indian communists a little further before we look at the meeting between Subhas Bose and Doctorji that could not take place. While the RSS is observing its centenary in 2025-2026, Indian communist parties, the CPI and CPIM are facing an acute existential crisis. They would have completely evaporated had it not been for a persistent tribe in the media and the academia who still offer their decrepit ideology some space and limelight.

The communist parties' disconnection from the cultural essence of the Indian people and civilisation, led to their eventual and permanent decline. Their infatuation with foreign tropes and frameworks led them to wrongly analyse India's civilisational march and evolution. Their aversion and opposition to India's religious, cultural and adhyatmik continuum, their attempt to deconstruct these with foreign intellectual tools and lenses such as class struggle, alienation, and revolutionary praxis, distorted their study and understanding of Indian society.