{"id":98311,"date":"2017-07-15T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T08:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=98311"},"modified":"2017-07-15T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T08:46:55","slug":"rss-preaching-vegsareeno-cakes-no-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/rss-preaching-vegsareeno-cakes-no-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"The RSS preaching-Veg,saree,no cakes-no TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to eat, what to wear, how to celebrate birthdays and advice on public conduct — all this is part of the RSS\u2019 family counselling programme launched in\u2009April.<\/p>\n

The pan-India campaign involves visiting people\u2019s homes to \u201cinstill values and ethics\u201d apart from advocating vegetarianism and promoting Indian attire. Named Kutumb Prabodhan family counselling, the campaign will continue till the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n

RSS insiders said senior swayamsevaks, along with one or two swayamsevaks and a Rashtra Sevika Sangh (RSS\u2019 women\u2019s wing) worker, visit families and \u2018educate\u2019 them on the benefits of vegetarianism and how to avoid being influenced by foreign culture, especially as shown by various television channels and social media portals.<\/p>\n

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One such group led by RSS leader Ashok Bhatt, the Vidarbha convener of Kutumb Prabodhan, visited the family of Suresh Deshpande in Nagpur\u2019s Sadar locality last week.<\/p>\n

The team advised them to wear sarees and kurta-pyjamas during festivals and told them celebrating birthdays by blowing candles and cutting cakes was not a part of the Indian culture.<\/p>\n

The Deshpandes, a family of four, were told about traditional Hindu practices such as chanting mantras before meals. They said all the family members must eat together at least once a week and should not watch television at the time, instead bond with each other.<\/p>\n

During their family time, they should avoid discussing politics and cricket. Besides, every person must respect women, fight casteism, and inculcate the habit of reading good books that feed one\u2019s intellect. The Deshpandes were told to take up social work.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe RSS team enquired about our food habits, favourite TV channels and shows, how we celebrate birthday and our preference of attire,\u201d said Suresh.He said the talk was a good concept aimed at strengthening the bond between family members.<\/p>\n

\u201cBesides, through the interaction we could understand the problems faced by our children and other members of the family,\u201d said Sunita, Suresh\u2019s wife.Bhatt said they have been getting a good response.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are also asking the families to sit together at least once a week to help to create bonhomie and strengthen ties among the members,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Atul Pingle, a senior RSS leader and Vidarbha Prant Pracharak Pramukh, said such an initiative was the need of the hour when people were becoming more materialistic and self-centred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What to eat, what to wear, how to celebrate birthdays and advice on public conduct — all this is part of the RSS\u2019 family counselling programme launched in\u2009April. The pan-India campaign involves visiting people\u2019s homes to \u201cinstill values and ethics\u201d apart from advocating vegetarianism and promoting Indian attire. Named Kutumb Prabodhan family counselling, the campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[23992,4887,49451,4041,49454,49450,49452,243,49453,49449,49448],"class_list":["post-98311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-2019-general-elections","tag-advice","tag-celebrate-birthdays","tag-eat","tag-kutumb-prabodhan","tag-no-cakes-no-tv","tag-public-conduct","tag-rss","tag-rss-family-counselling-programme","tag-saree","tag-the-rss-preaching-veg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1303586_Wallpaper2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}