Delhi, 11 December (H.S.): Senior RSS pracharak and member of the Akhil Bharatiya Karyakarini Indresh Kumar on Thursday said that to truly understand the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), it is essential to understand both its workers and its working methodology. He said that in the Sangh, “greater importance is given not to prosperity, but to character.”

He was addressing a programme on Social–Cultural Consciousness and the RSS, organised by the Hindusthan Samachar Group at the Samvet Auditorium of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), on the occasion of the RSS completing 100 years since its establishment.

During the event, two special editions of Hindusthan Samachar Group’s magazines were released — Navotthan’s special issue “Sangh Centenary: New Horizons”, and the Yugwarta special edition “Neenv Ke Patthar.” The Navotthan issue focuses on cultural consciousness linked to the Sangh’s centenary year, while the Yugwarta edition presents brief biographies of 105 senior RSS pracharaks.

Indresh Kumar said that the two magazines — Yugwarta and Navotthan — present a “model of a man and a model of process,” reflecting both the lives of RSS workers and the Sangh’s functioning. These principles, he said, have been demonstrated through the lives and conduct of RSS pracharaks, whose experiences have been compiled in these publications.

He said that the RSS truly “descended on the earth” a hundred years ago, and Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar became the one who enabled that descent. “We are fortunate,” he said, “that we have had the opportunity to witness this descent, to bathe in it, and to become a part of this sacred flow.”

Indresh Kumar said, “Many civilizations were formed and vanished in the world, but India has always existed. We were, we are, and we will remain.” He added that it is important to understand the reasons behind this continuity — the character of the people of India and the inherent nature of the nation.

He said that education in India has always been focused on making people morally and intellectually better, while modern education has become limited to merely passing examinations. He stressed the need to teach the youth of the country not opportunism but nationalism.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar