The RSS, a self-styled cultural organisation with a pan-India presence and a decade of power-sharing with the BJP, remains largely unknown to most people on the streets.
The intriguing part of the RSS’ practice is where paranoia and civility, fear and sense of belonging, and culture and violence seamlessly inhabit together.
They create problems of paranoia and provide the comfort in building new temples, and in bringing children from the Northeast to admit them in Vedic Pathshalas. In the absence of a friend in life, this looks like an assurance that does not pull you out of alienation.