“The epitaph of an RSS man will be: he was born, went to shakha, and died.”

— Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 256

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Indian pro-independence activist,lawyer, politician, poet, … 1883–1966

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