By Badri Narayan

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) began its centenary celebrations recently. The Sangh and its sympathisers are organising various programmes related to the RSS and its schemes for the India of the future. In these programmes, various aspects and meanings of the Sangh in Indian society are being discussed. These apart, they are producing other appreciative as well as critical discourses, triggering interpretations of its past and present.

On October 1 in Delhi, at an event linked to the celebrations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the RSS role in the making of the Indian society and nation. He highlighted how in the Sangh’s shakhas (branches), an individual’s journey from “me” to “we” begins. As we know, Modi was a karyakarta (functionary) and pracharak (mi

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