New Delhi: At a time when most kids their age are busy reading Harry Potter or surfing the net, some children are being fed on the ideologies of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
For the child trainees in the RSS shakhas ,learning is restricted to the teachings of Sangh Founders Golwalkar, Hedgewar, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Deen Dayal Upadyay.
Student life at these Shakhas is a lot different for the children subscribing to the Parivar's views.
Oblivious of the technological leaps the world outside is taking, the child-trainees at RSS camps have been conditioned to remain satisfied within their comfort zones and do not feel that archaic views are obstructing their vision of the world.
"I am happy to learn about how Guru Ji (teacher) used to play and sing," says a child trainee.
The irony of the situation is that RSS bigwigs being sermonised about always been well educated themselves. The current RSS chief KS Sudershan is an electronics engineer. His likely successor Mohan Rao Bhagwat is a qualified doctor and his predecessor Rajju Bhaiya was a physicist.
But as the winds of liberalisation swept across India, the RSS ideology changed to hard Hindutva and became an obstacle for its own growth. But RSS top bosses refuse to acknowledge it.
"The thing is that we believe in emotional attachments more. The onus is always on heart to heart bonds rather than just development of self," Tarun Vijay, RSS leader, says.
The values that the RSS wants to propagate belong to another century and the children being nurtured in the shakhas are not going to be the majority voters the BJP of tomorrow is looking at.
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