Sanjeev Kelkar - Lost Years of the RSS

Lost Years of the RSS

Lost Years of the RSS

Sanjeev Kelkar

Copyright Sanjeev Kelkar, 2011

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kelkar, Sanjeev.

Lost years of the RSS/Sanjeev Kelkar.

p. c.m.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Rashtriya Swayam Sevak SanghHistory. 2. IndiaPolitics and government1947. 3. HinduismRelationsIslam. 4. Hinduism and politicsIndia. 5. Hindutva. 6. Hedgewar, Keshav Baliram, 18891940Political and social views. I. Title.

DS480.84.K43 320.540954dc22 2011 2011003282

ePUB ISBN: 9788132119227

The SAGE Team: Elina Majumdar, Aniruddha De and Deepti Saxena

T o Shri Balasaheb Deoras,

Chief of RSS, 19731994,

The misunderstood giant,

The balance wheel of RSS and Parivar.

T o the followers of the RSS, in the hope that they regain,

through his thinking, the need to rediscover and represent
the RSS of the original,

and destroy the unacceptable rabidness, inconsistencies,

imbalances and distortions it has become a victim of.

T o all my friends adhering to other ideologies

to introspect, to reach the truths about themselves

and to shed the obsolescence pervading therein.

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Contents

This is not just a book. It is a treatise with a difference. It is not a doctoral dissertation, yet it has all the elements of objective analysis and interpretation. It is research based and substantially documented. Though it has an autobiographical dimension, it has no personal bias, no predilection, nor rancour! Indeed, it has a strong purpose to make us introspect and examine all the premises which we hold closely, even passionately, often prejudicially and sometimes possessively!!

We frequently encounter people, particularly in this country, who refuse to inquire. They feel it is a betrayal to the cause they held so dearly. They think it is immoral. Even blasphemous! The result iswe do not grow, neither individually nor collectively. This intellectual and emotional stagnation results in inertia. Finally, this inertia destroys our life at personal, social as well as national level.

The title of the book, The Lost Years of RSS , may sound to some as provocative. Actually, it is inquisitive, but our intelligentsia regards being inquisitive as provocative. Also it must be stated that the title is also slightly, but inevitably, misleading. The book is about the RSS, from its concept and foundation to its todays predicament. A similar exercise could be undertaken by any Communist, Socialist or a Gandhian. In fact, by anyone who regards his conviction is superior to the reality he is in.

The author of this book is not just a medical consultant. He is a highly experienced Management Expert and Strategic Consultant, a grassroots worker and also an institution builder. A social activist and a nationalist, without any chauvinism, religious or cultural! Compassion and commitment have been his driving forces. That is why he chose to work in totally poor and backward rural area for long years. He could have given up and settled in a cosy metro city or settled abroad. Yet, he chose to change the world around him.

Born in Nagpur and educated in Mumbai, he has lectured and taught in many places world over. He has travelled all over the world and interacted with a vast range of people. His career spans from his rural stint to highly complex medicine to multinational pharma industry to professional education for doctors. He has seen medicine from a 360-degree perspective. It is necessary to know these aspects of Dr Kelkars personality.