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On October 12, thousands of men dressed in khaki and holding lathi sticks took to the streets of Bengaluru. One hundred marches were held across the city, with each reportedly seeing a turnout of 200-500 men. The large, lathi-wielding turnout marked the year of an organisation that is not even formally registered, that is, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Through October, the RSS had been holding route marches across Karnataka as part of its centenary celebrations. One RSS leader in Bengaluru told TNM that the goal was to hold a route march in every taluk across the country. The Hindutva outfit’s first such route march was held in 1926 in Nagpur, a year after its inception, and it has continued to hold such marches wherever

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