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...most famous son. His startling abilities as an actor, taking lead roles in school plays and once writing and performing a one-man show. And his almost fanatical devotion, from the age of five, to the BJP's parent organization, the secretive Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers Party, or RSS). Modi's 86-year-old mother Hiraben recalls that her son couldn't wait for the moment each day when he could change into his RSS cadet uniform of khaki shorts, white shirt and black cap and snap out smart salutes to a saffron flag...
...university, Modi quickly joined the RSS's student wing. At the time, the RSS and its fledgling political wing the BJP were on the fringe of India's political scene. By 1984, the BJP had only two seats in Parliament. All that changed in the late 1980s with the advent of Indian TV's first big hit show, Ramayana. The serialization of the legend of the god-king Rama set new lows for wooden acting and dismal special effects?and surprised everyone when it became a smash. Modi, by then a BJP press officer, wasn't the only...
...went off to college carrying his family's hopes that he would become a lawyer. For a while, Narayan tried to play the part--"I would wear ties, go out drinking with my friends and keep looking for fun"--but he soon fell into the company of some RSS members. "I began to understand the emptiness of my life," he says. "I decided to struggle for the preservation of our glorious culture, which is under threat...
...department currently offers Russian literature as a concentration, with an option focusing on Russian-Soviet studies (RSS...
...RSS major is very unstructured right now--we are pretty much on our own in choosing our program of study," Natasha Wei '82, a concentrator, said yesterday. "The problem is they (department officials) haven't clearly stated anywhere what courses they expect us to take," she added...