Organiser (newspaper)
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| Former editors | A.R. Nair K.R. Malkani L.K. Advani V.P. Bhatia Seshadri Chari |
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| Categories | News, Politics, Science, Sport, History |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | 5,000,000 |
| Publisher | Pramod Kaushik |
| First issue | 1947 |
| Country | India |
| Based in | Sanskriti Bhavan, D.B. Gupta Road, Jhandewalan, New Delhi |
| Language | English |
| Website | organiser |
Organiser is an affiliated publication of the Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), launched as a newspaper in 1947 in the weeks before the Partition of India. Despite its professed claims of independence, it is regarded by scholars as an official organ of the RSS. The newspaper has been edited by A. R. Nair, K. R. Malkani, L. K. Advani, V. P. Bhatia, Seshadri Chari and R. Balashanker. The current editor is Prafulla Ketkar. Organiser was relaunched in a magazine format since the edition of 1 April 2014.
After the second world war, the leadership of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) contemplated how to communicate its views quickly to the growing membership of the organisation. Its theoretical underpinnings established by the founder K. B. Hedgewar discouraged publicity and mass communication. He preferred informal communication of verbal messages carried by RSS pracharaks (full-time workers). However, in the run-up to Indian independence, the "activist pracharaks"–those that favoured more wide-ranging activities for the RSS than societal organisation—argued that the RSS needed to publicise its position on the Partition, on the goals of independent India and on how Hindus should respond to communal tension. After discussion, the RSS leaders consented to the establishment of trusts that could publish newspapers and journals sympathetic to the RSS. Consequently, in late 1946, the swayamsevaks (volunteer members) in the Punjab and Delhi region sold shares for the Bharat Prakashan Trust and raised Rs. 400,000.
The Bharat Prakashan Trust started publishing the Organiser as a weekly starting on 3 July 1947, rouggly a month after the British announcement to grant independence and partition the country. The initial issues of Organiser focused on the impending partition of India and called for resistance to such proposals.
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