New Delhi: The problem with journalists is that they do not take what we say seriously, an RSS pracharak in Haryana once told me.

“You all only see us through the lens of the BJP, and have no patience to understand the actual day-to-day work we do, and chase us only at election time,” he said. “That is why very few understand how the RSS got where it got.”

Few people still understand how the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) got here — even as the Sangh, founded on 27 September 1925 in Nagpur, celebrates its centenary year. The celebrations have come from predictable quarters. Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a specially designed commemorative postage stamp and coin highlighting the Sangh’s contributions to the nation. He called the RSS the embodiment of “timele

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