Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

  An Open Appeal to India’s Security Forces: Stand with Democratic Dissent Posted on 9th October, 2026 (GMT 06:55 hrs) ABSTRACT On 10 October 2026, as unarmed citizens, students and opposition voices gather at Jantar Mantar in peaceful civil disobedience, the State has assembled more than 40,000 Delhi Police and Central Armed Police Forces personnel, detention centres, facial-recognition cameras and metro closures against them. Once in a Blue Moon Academia appeals to those in uniform, not as adversaries but as fellow citizens, to let conscience precede command, to refuse the police state the last word, and to stand with the constitutional right to dissent. Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA), committed to a moneyless, partyless democratic commons, stands in solidarity with the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the opposition, youth and women who are, at this hour, courageously resisting and confronting the BJP-RSS and the mechanisms of fascist domination through which the present rulin...

  A Glimpse into Saffron Fascism: The RSS and the Sangh Posted on 2nd October, 2026 (GMT 04:25 hrs) ABSTRACT This exposé treats the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its Sangh Parivar not as mere faith but as a political technology: a durable and unregistered apparatus for manufacturing majoritarian-theocratic consent, disciplining populations and capturing the state. Scaffolded by Althusser, Gramsci, Foucault and Durkheim, it follows the organisation from its 1925 founding and abstention from the freedom struggle through Golwalkar’s programme of subordination without citizen’s rights, the semitisation of a colonial umbrella-term, “Hinduism,” into a pasteurised monolith, and the Akhand Bharat imagi-nation in which Partition is a wound and “go to Pakistan” a confession that the map is a poster. It tracks the saturation of civil society by more than fifty affiliates, the money without a ledger, the drills and the arms, the gendered order of Durga and Sita, the caste contract Megh...