Keshav Dham, RSS’ office in Vrindavan, doubles up as a hostel for 52 children from the northestern states of India. They study at the Sangh-run Saraswati Vidyamandir Senior Secondary School where their medium of instruction is English. Alongside, they are all taught Sanskrit. In fact, though their conversational skills in Hindi is pretty barebone, all instructions were being given to them in Sanskrit.

National Herald’s Vishwadeepak spoke to a few of these children when they were planting the RSS flag in the field.