As we sit to analyse the statements of Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at the centenary event held to mark 100 years of the RSS—particularly what he said about the attitude of the Sangh in relation to Muslims of India—the question that arises is, is there anything new, anything remarkable and anything very meaningful in what he said. The phrase double-talk is derived from doublethink, which was coined by George Orwell in his dystopian novel, 1984. His definition of the phrase arising from the official language of the ruling ‘Party’ that the book calls ‘Newspeak’...