For, Dr Hedgewar was a tion builder, a visiory, a thinker and a moulder of human minds all rolled into one. The fact that he was born on Varsha Pratipada , Indian New Year day on April 1, 1889 has given a new meaning to that day. The RSS was born on Vijayadasami in 1925 September when Doctorji was 36. He was born in gpur as the fifth child of his parents. As a brilliant student he completed his LMS degree and could have started a lucrative medical practice. But he plunged into public life, remained a bachelor and worked tirelessly to spread the organization he founded. Late RSS leader H V Seshadri in 1988 wrote a book, RSS: A Vision in Action. In this book Shri Seshadri summed up the RSS work as keeping the spirit of freedom, facing interl threats to tiol unity, strengthening tiol morale and meeting the threat of conversion by inducement, striving for social harmony, social justice, helping people facing tural calamities and espousing tiolist, value based education and character building. RSS sees politics and power as means to achieve this goal.