Ghar Wapsi as a Movement — Building the Ideological and Organisational Architecture
How does an idea become a movement? This session — convened by Sanatan Ghar Wapsi Foundation leaders with Rahul Dewan and other participants — works through the exact organisational model needed to take ghar wapsi from scattered individual acts to a coordinated civilisational counter-operation.
The speaker opens with the Buddha example: Buddhism spread not because the founder went everywhere, but because a small intellectual core developed the philosophy rigorously enough that it became self-propagating. The same model is proposed for ghar wapsi — a think tank capable of government penetration (IAS/IPS lobbying, ministerial access), district-level Ghar Wapsi Resource Centres (GRCs) as nodes for foot soldiers, and a tiered structure explicitly modeled on how Christian missions operate (Delhi policy desk → regional coordinator → village worker). The discussion is candid about the gap: nearly one lakh Hindu organisations are registered in India, all interested in ghar wapsi in principle, none providing the structured, replicable, mission-organisation discipline. A Narmada valley case study demonstrates the three-tier Christian model in practice. The session ends with a practical demand — every district GRC must have ties to business associations, political representatives, and law enforcement so that when conversion incidents occur, the response is institutional rather than individual.

About The Speaker:
Swami Vedatattvananda Puri – President, Vivekananda Ramakrishna Math
Hanuman Nath Yogi – Mahant, Gorakhnath Temple, Pilibhit
Rahul Diwan – Chairman, Hindu Fund; Founder, Sanatan Ghar Wapsi Foundation
Anubhav Pandey – Co-ordinator, Hindu Fund