In one of the most striking revelations of the conversation, Shamsul Islam recalls how the RSS’s English mouthpiece, Organizer, reacted to India’s newly adopted Constitution. The Constituent Assembly passed the Constitution of India on 26 November 1949, laying the foundation of a democratic, secular republic. But barely four days later, the RSS publication carried an editorial rejecting it outright, declaring: “We reject this Constitution... What we need is Manusmriti as our guiding text.” Shams