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How RSS sends clear signals to intended groups while evading accountability

RSS effort to distance itself from Panchjanya as thin as its claim of being a 'cultural organisation'

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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
The controversy generated by the cover-story article in the Hindi weekly magazine, Panchjanya, levelling wild and unsubstantiated charges against Bengaluru-based I-T major Infosys, and the formal clarification issued on Sunday, September 5, by the all India Prachar Pramukh (Publicity Chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Sunil Ambekar, is yet another instance of the sangh parivar cunningly articulating sharply contentious viewpoint, but ensuring that it is not held accountable for it. 

At the end of each of such episodes, despite officially disassociating itself from the indictment, the message is always sent to the intended target - in this case the corporate world.
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