Sunil Ambekar, the Prachar Pramukh of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), steps into the ring on March 19, 2025, and swings hard: “Aurangzeb? He’s not relevant." This statement has only fuelled the chaos surrounding the issue. While RSS supporters are alleged to be flabbergasted, its detractors are said to have mixed reactions — some welcome it, while others dismiss it as “RSS ki saazish".

Decode this: it isn’t some weak plea to calm down—it’s the RSS slamming the door on a 300-year-old corpse dictating India’s pulse. Aurangzeb’s crimes were real and bone chilling but Hindus have to be big enough to let his tomb rot where it stands. Not out of kindness, but because we have got a future to forge, and his dust isn’t worth the sweat.

Without doubt, Aurangzeb – the sixth Mughal emperor (1658–1707) – was a walking terror show. Take Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, Shivaji’s........

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