Unsung heroes.

I HAD just returned from the summer training camp of the RSS held at Ban-galore. Some of us met on June 25, 1975 night at the RSS office in Mangalore to discuss what events would possibly take place and how to face them. We also discussed the mode of contacting each other in the eventuality of harsh measures. Things were still not clear. Then we decided to go to bed at the RSS office.

I was still a bachelor at that time teaching in Canara College at Mangalore. Sudden-ly we got a message that the RSS had been banned and the office would be seized by police. We were told by the Mangalore pra-charak, Ravi, who is currently the Kar-natak prant pracha-rak, to disperse immediately. The whole situation was a bit confusing as it was a totally new confrontation and there were no certainties about the Emergency period. But somehow I was feeling happy - within my heart there was a ray of hope. In fact, I …