Dr. Keshavarao Hedgewar

Lately Keshavarao was not keeping well. Doctors advised him to go to Nasik for complete rest from work. Keshavarao went to Nasik but he was not the one to take rest.He kept busy in RSS work there. His condition deteriorated. He felt unbearable pain in his back. Some of his associates took him to Bihar […]

Keshavarao was a cheerful person.He would often tell jokes. He had very interesting ways to narrating his experiences. Keshavarao was always informal and talked in an easy natural manner.Once he went to a worker’s house to attend a wedding in his family. There was a jolly crowd of young RSS members. They were talking and

Keshavarao was a person who involved himself in any movement he thought was in the interest of the country. He had a brain wave that Jungle Satyagraha would immensely prove helpful to the cause of the country.So, with Bapuji Ane he began the Jungle Satyagraha. He held a meeting of the workers of RSS and

On 17th April, 1926 ‘Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh’ was born. Its blue print was already drawn in the mind of Dr. Keshavarao Hedgewar. He could no more wait to put his idea in action.On that day of Dussehra, Keshavarao called a meeting of around a score of his close associates. He announced that he was

In 1922, Keshavarao was appointed as the minister of Provincial Congress. Working on that post he realised that there was utter lack of discipline among the party workers. He wished to set up a separate group of disciplined workers within Congress.He wanted to enrol fiercely patriotic and dedicated youth in it who were proud of

Meanwhile Nagpur was passing through a harrowing period. Plague epidemic had broken out. People were deserting the town in hordes. The death stalked everyone.Every face had a pair of terror struck eyes.But the brother of Keshava, Mahadeva stayed put in his house. He was following in the foot steps of the parents. He would not

Keshava had to leave Yavatmal. He went to Pune and got accepted at the muth of Jagadguru Shankaracharya. The muth had taken the care of his lodging and boarding. He concentrated on the preparation of matriculation exams.The examination was held at Amravati centre.The result came out and Keshava had successfully passed the matriculation. After the

A few days after the above incident Keshava was admitted into the local school for formal education. After coming back from school it was his custom to chant Vedic mantra, Ramraksha prayer and several other devotional couplets.He had a very active mind capable of educating itself with general information available outside and the current affairs.

1st April, 1889.In Maharashtra this day is celebrated as ‘Gudi Padwa’ which literally means ‘flag hoisting’. The people hoist flags with the religious emblems on their houses on this occasion. The doors are decorated with festoons, buntings and leaves of religiously ordered sacred trees. Welcome arches are also erected as an expression of happiness and