Overview

• Speaking in New Delhi at the launch of Everything All At Once, Mohan Bhagwat said India should chart its own path rooted in sanatan thought to avoid recurring crises.
• He cast recent US tariff actions and reports of a $100,000 H‑1B fee as evidence of a self‑interested global order and pressed for greater self‑reliance.
• Recounting a meeting with “a gentleman from America,” he criticized conditional partnerships and used a food‑chain metaphor to describe power imbalances.
• He urged calibrated assertiveness that does not turn every confrontation into war and asserted that India has fulfilled its environmental commitments.
• The comments land as talks toward a trade deal have resumed, and, while not government policy, they carry weight given the RSS’s influence on the ruling BJP.