There is wisdom in the observations made by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on the recent student protests. One only wishes those words had been spoken when thousands of aggrieved students first gathered at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to protest against the examination scandals that shook the country.

Coming when they did, two weeks after the brutal police action against the demonstrators, they sounded more like a postscript than timely guidance. He is not the head of an ordinary social organisation.

He leads the century-old Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological fountainhead that gave birth to the Bharatiya Janata Party and several other organisations.

His words carry enormous weight within the ruling establishment. Had he intervened at the beginning of the........

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