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What are the implications for secular democracy of the recent decision of the union government to lift the decades-old ban on civil servants and judges joining the RSS?
This is the subject of the latest episode of Yeh Daag Daag Ujala- the Karwan e Mohabbat series with Scroll.in of long-form discussions on the state of the Indian republic.
Ashok Sharma, retired diplomat andambassador to Kazakhstan and Finland; Nilanjan Mukhopadhya, writer and journalist with particular interest in Hindutva nationalism and writer of a definitive biography of Narendra Modi and on the icons of the RSS; and Akshaya Mukul, journalist turned writer, researcher, scholar and author of the milestone Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India; discussed with Harsh Mander, peace and justice worker and writer.