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A fog of mystery surrounds the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS the largest cadre-based organisation in the world. Veteran journalist and author of the bestseller Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay lays bare its fascinating, unique and perhaps startling world. He also chronicles the personal and political journeys of the most important men (and a woman) of the Hindu Right-wing, digging up little-known but revealing facts about them.
KESHAV BALIRAM HEDGEWAR: The founder of the RSS, and its first sarsanghchalak, was called Cocaine as a young revolutionary, and transported subversive literature and arms for a group back home in Nagpur.
VINAYAK DAMODAR SAVARKAR: This leading light of the Hindu Right had once invited the vegetarian Mahatma Gandhi to dinner and told him that unless one consumed animal protein, one would not be able to challenge the might of the British.
MADHAV SADASHIV GOLWALKAR aka GURUJI : The iconic hermit-ideologue , whose appointment as sarsanghchalak was challenged by many in the RSS, had once warned a protesting colleague, I will throw him out of (the) RSS like a stone in rice...
SYAMA PRASAD MOOKERJEE: A brilliant academic-statesman who became part of Nehru s Cabinet, Mookerjee had several differences with the prime minister. He once asked Nehru: Are Kashmiris Indians first and Kashmiris next, or are they Kashmiris first and Indian next, or are they Kashmiris first, second and third, and not Indians at all?
KESHAV BALIRAM HEDGEWAR: The founder of the RSS, and its first sarsanghchalak, was called Cocaine as a young revolutionary, and transported subversive literature and arms for a group back home in Nagpur.
VINAYAK DAMODAR SAVARKAR: This leading light of the Hindu Right had once invited the vegetarian Mahatma Gandhi to dinner and told him that unless one consumed animal protein, one would not be able to challenge the might of the British.
MADHAV SADASHIV GOLWALKAR aka GURUJI : The iconic hermit-ideologue , whose appointment as sarsanghchalak was challenged by many in the RSS, had once warned a protesting colleague, I will throw him out of (the) RSS like a stone in rice...
SYAMA PRASAD MOOKERJEE: A brilliant academic-statesman who became part of Nehru s Cabinet, Mookerjee had several differences with the prime minister. He once asked Nehru: Are Kashmiris Indians first and Kashmiris next, or are they Kashmiris first and Indian next, or are they Kashmiris first, second and third, and not Indians at all?
