Status Updates From RSS: The Long and Short of it

It’s election time and it’s a timely read for the season

"Everything is a puppet show. If a new puppet dances better to a given tune than the current one, and shows more colour, dazzle, devotion and cunning, it enters the stage wearing a mask of strength or astuteness. It becomes the leader. The puppet that played the leader earlier is flung aside(remember L.K. Advani). "

The qualifications for an utsava murti are the ability to put up a show and the canniness to give an emotional colour to things that spin out of control, and create a commotion, and thus take attention away from the problem."

The author has hit the bullseye here!

"PM Modi,who won a majority for the BJP, is projected as a strong leader. But he's only an utsava murti, a replica of the temple deity taken out during a procession. The real deity sits in Nagpur, inside the RSS shrine. The utsava murti dazzles everyone across the length and breadth of the country. It's hailed everywhere. (TBC)

"Starting with the Adivasis, and including the Brahmins, the multitude of castes forming the humane majority of Hindu society must act now(against fanaticism)"
The problem with this "humane" Hindu society is that its division along caste lines is too deep to fight against any common enemy. RSS, in this case is spawned out of the same social structure that holds this hindu society. Author is too optimistic imo.