"I have not seen any Swaemsevak at that time smoking at all," Vice President C P Radhakrishnan has said here.
Addressing a function organised to mark 80 years of the right wing magazine 'Organiser'; he said: "Guruji once asked what is the one common feature of all Sangh patrikas... no one had the answer. Then Guruji (Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar) said it is the half page ad of Mysore Bidi Beedi".
He referred to the financial challenges in the running of patriotic magazines and newspapers mentioned how "the contribution" came from the common people in running such periodicals.
"... I say this because their customers were not the readers of 'Organiser' ... "I have not seen any Swaemsevak at that time smoking at all".
The Vice President applauded Organiser's eight-decade contribution to India's democratic discourse and also recalled the magazine's role during Emergency. He also highlighted the magazine's fight against censorship and how it strengthened media freedom in independent India.
The Vice-President also released the books 'Hindutva Discourse After Independence – Reading With Organiser Pages' by Shri Prafulla Ketkar and Shri Gautam Choubey, and
'Temples Beyond Bharat' by Dr. Ujwala Chakradeo.
Referring to Hindutva Discourse after Independence, Radhakrishnan said that Organiser's eight decades of documentation constitute an important archival record of India's political, social and intellectual evolution and provide a valuable window into the evolution of Hindutva.
Congratulating Bharat Prakashan Limited, he said that true to its enduring tagline, “Voice of the Nation”, Organiser has consistently brought to the forefront issues that many preferred to overlook.
Referring to the observations made by senior RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale during the programme, he noted that Organiser has served as the “voice of the soul of the nation”, guided not by any narrow or self-serving motive.
In contrast it had an abiding commitment to the larger national interest and the vision of seeing Bharat emerge as a strong, prosperous and self-confident nation.
It's former editors included - A R. Nair, K R Malkani, L. K. Advani,
V. P. Bhatia and Seshadri Chari.
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