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Nagpur: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), set up by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in 1925, has over a period of time lost its intellectual sheen due to mediocrity ruling the roost in the organization. There were a number of intellectuals with him who had a crucial role in shaping the RSS. “This trend is more visible after the BJP -led government has come to the power at the Centre and the RSS has become an accepted institution across the country,” he said. “It is well known that if someone is critical about the Sangh or questions its ways, that person is treated with disdain and labelled incapable of understanding the Sangh ethos. “Only good thing is that I have not kept contents of my book away from the Sangh top functionaries who magnanimously asked me to discuss the issues at a meet of senior swayamsevaks, recently at the behest of Sarsanghachalak,” Tupkary said.Veteran city journalist Vinod Deshmukh, who formally released the book, hoped the RSS top bosses would learn lessons from the book and curb tendencies of its functionaries to hanker for power..