vijay wrote:

RSS has it bothways. When their political interference fails they claim they are a cultural organization. When culturally they create chaos they start claiming they are a nationalist body. They shy away from taking open political stands and do not fight elections. They keep adding fuel from time to time to keep the pot boiling. They are the equivalent of Congress's high command but do not accept -but all know it. Their idea of history has stopped at 999 AD. However till there is fundamentalism in our society they will survive as an anti dote to other side's fundamentalism.

I like your last line which says 'they will survive as an anti dote to other side's fundamentalism'. Don't you think the real test of diamond is in checking how it cuts a piece of glass?

But friction occurs when both sides think they are diamonds only to shatter as pieces of glass. Who suffers - both.