What Citizen Pranab Mukherjee said, and didn't say, at the RSS headquarters

Mitali Saran has a go at decoding the former President's thought at Hindutva's bastion

I rarely watch television news anymore, because it makes my brain try to eat itself. But I made an exception to watch ex-President Pranab Mukherjee at the RSS headquarters, trying not to fall asleep during the worst parade and drill ever put up in independent India. 

No offence, I’m just kidding! He was actually wide awake. 

People are wondering what Mr Mukherjee, a staunch Congressman, was doing playing footsie with the RSS. What was he thinking? Well, you know how the Prime Minister’s translator recently ‘translated’ a paragraph that the Prime Minister had not actually said, during a question and