New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has officially marked 100 years of its foundation. In the BBC , Samira Hussain covers the celebratory event in Nagpur, which saw about 3,800 volunteers in attendance, and looks at how even 100 years on, the RSS remains as opaque as ever.

“In a speech at RSS headquarters in the western city of Nagpur, its chief Mohan Bhagwat addressed a range of topics, including the conflict with Pakistan earlier this year, climate change, economic inequality and political turmoil in India’s neighbouring countries,” says the report.

“It’s an extremely complex organisational network,” Tanika Sarkar, a visiting professor at Ashoka University, tells the BBC . “It is a sprawling network which is difficult to characterise and difficult also to identify

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