The Feicui Lake, also known as Emerald Lake, in northwest China's Qinghai Province, is famed for its mineral-rich waters, which shimmer in dazzling shades of green, resembling gems inlaid across the land.
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The RSS does not exist! Yes you read that right. One of the country's most powerful organizations is not even legally registered in any state.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or the RSS, shapes public sentiment, governments, classrooms, and public life in India, but interestingly it has no legal registration.
Just recently, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said Sangh is not registered under any law because it is simply a body of individuals.
He argued that it began in 1925 under British rule, so registration was not at all necessary back then.
And according to him, the government did not make it compulsory to register after independence, and the RSS has continued its work within framework of the law for nearly a century.
Addressing concerns about its finances, Bhagwat said the Income Tax Department and the courts have already examined the matter, noting that the RSS is legally classified as a body of individuals—a status that exempts it from paying income tax.
But that very status also shields it from very valid public scrutiny.
RSS has no registered membership list, no mandatory income statement, and no annual audits. Yet, it operates on a scale few institutions can match, with more than 80,000 local shakhas, hundreds of affiliated schools, charities, and publishing houses, and a ₹150 crore headquarters in Delhi.
So then the question is how does an unregistered organization own land worth crores, raise funds, and even run national programs?
They do it through a web of registered fronts, including temple trusts, welfare societies, and cultural NGOs.
Money and assets move through those affiliates while the core organization stays legally invisible. There is no single entity to question, no clear paper trail to follow.
This particular loophole once even helped the Sangh deny that Nathuram Godse, Gandhi's assassin, was ever a member. There was literally no official membership records to prove it legally.
Being unregistered doesn't make an organization untouchable, but in practice, it shields the RSS from the kind of transparency required by a charity or a company.
If there is no legal entity, who is accountable for the money it collects, the land it holds, and the influence it exercises?
The RSS has used terms conveniently over the decades. At times it calls itself cultural, at some other times educational, sometimes charitable, now just a 'body of individuals'.
But the RSS's reach today goes far beyond cultural work. It extends deep into the very machinery of Modi's governance.
A hundred years later, the RSS has indeed mastered something rare: how to be powerful without paperwork, visible without scrutiny, and central to governance without being formally answerable to the public. The RSS is everywhere, and yet officially, it does not exist at all.
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The drums of a revolution of the hungry are beating.
The situation in junta-ruled Egypt has become unimaginably difficult.
Forced disappearances and arrests target anyone who merely speaks out, whether for supporting Palestine, like the Egyptian young man Shehab El-Sayed Abdel Samad, whose father died minutes after visiting his son in prison, or simply for complaining about rising prices.
Most of the other forcibly disappeared carry titles such as doctor, engineer, writer, or activist.
Meanwhile, drug dealers operate freely and trade openly in broad daylight
Add to it the unbearable rise in the cost of living.
It has reached the point where a mother found suicide to be the only escape from Sisi’s Egypt, a country where Egyptians no longer feel they have a place.
In Qena, a tragic incident occurred after a 38-year-old nurse threw herself and her two children into the Nile from the Dandara Bridge. Rescue forces managed to save the mother and recover the body of her infant child, while the search continues for her daughter.
Add to this the expulsion of families from their homes in order to seize the land, (video showing a family left in the street and a devastated father)
If the colonial West does not move quickly to inject more money to save its client Sisi, or order its clients in the Gulf entities to pour more money into generals-ruled Egypt, the West may lose Egypt, and the domino effect will not stop there.
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