It is very difficult to describe how RSS has impacted the national life of Bharat over 100 years. If it were so, I would not end up writing 7 books on RSS. Of these seven, three have simply talked about this impact. We can only make think of some markers that can give an indication of how Bharat would have suffered if there was no RSS. It would be no gainsaying that the very fact that RSS has survived and thrived over this century without any splits or fall outs, a hall mark of social and political organisations of Hindus.

The journey of RSS began with a few propositions – Bharat is a Hindu Rashtra, and Hindutva or Hinduness is the basis of its organic unity that thrives with such wonderful diversity, and it is a perennial civilizational nation, the only one that has survived all the onslaught and not lost its life breath. We as a nation can rise only by accepting these basic truth. To achieve all this Dr Hedgewar realized that the nation needed well trained, disciplined citizens who took pride in their civilization, history and knowledge system. To achieve the goal of creating such model citizens of Bharat, he invented the institution of Shakha. And surprisingly, this process has survived and thrived in 100 years, without any fundamental change in it. Some additions have been made, some tweaking has been done, but fundamentally, the process remains same. Replicable, expandable and proven. A better system and process is yet to be found. The secret of this recipe is selfless affection for........

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