A pracharak's take on Partition

Ram Madhav's book offers some healing, reconciliation and closure on the events leading up to Independence

Partitioned Freedom 

Author: Ram Madhav 

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan 

Pages: 246 

Price: Rs 300

A few years ago on Independence Day, I asked a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak (full-timer) why the Sangh Parivar seemed to be perennially engaged in the battle of binaries: The Orient-Occident, Dharmic-Abrahamic, National-Anti-national, Vanvasi-Adivasi. His cryptic answer was: “Sirf binaries ka bhajan karte to Nagpur ke gali se Delhi nahi pohoch pate (If it were only about singing hymns laced with binaries we wouldn’t have reached Delhi from a lane in Nagpur).”
 

Elaborating, he told me the RSS and RSS-inspired organisations draw sympathy and wider acceptance among the masses courtesy of