On the day we travelled to Bidhipura village in Jammu, abutting the border with Pakistan, we came across an RSS team led by Brigadier Suchet Singh (Retd), the chief of its Jammu and Kashmir unit. The RSS had come to inspect the damage caused to a home in the village by Pakistani shells in the recent conflict between the two countries, described by the Director General of the BSF as the 'worst since the 1971 war.' The RSS is going door to door in affected villages, but insisted their role is not confined only to displays of empathy. Brigadier Singh told us that they are running camps for those displaced by the violence, an estimated 3,000 people who live in villages close to the border.