Vinayak Savarkar

  • Manufacturing and Undermining National Icons: RSS Style

    Ram Puniyani Many a social and political processes related to projection of some icons and undermining of the others have intensified during last few years. Even during the last regime of NDA led BJP rule from 1998, Savakar’s portrait was unveiled in the Parliament. At one level the game of undermining some icons and projecting…

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  • Was Veer Savarkar Really “Veer”?

    R.A Jahagirdar For generations the Hindutvavadis have venerated Vinayak Sawarkar as Veer Savarkar. The writings of Savarkar, especially in Marathi, show great valour and heroic sentiments. In language that is both beautiful and brave, the writings of Savarkar – in prose and poetry – display heroic qualities but of Hinduism. Savarkar wrote an essay, “Hindutva”…

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  • Savarkar: Was He a Rationalist?

    R.A. Jahagirdar  We publish this essay by Justice RA Jahagirdahr (1927-2011) on the Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar  in the context of the 8th National Conference of Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations (FIRA) held in Nagapur on 11-12 February 2012. The official souvenir brought out during the conference had a photograph of Vinayak Savarkar with the astonishing…

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