On 1st October 1905, in a speech, he urged the countrymen to abstain from buying foreign goods and to make a bonfire of all foreign clothes & goods on the day of Dussehra. Vinayak Savarkar was a staunch opponent of Partition of Bharatvarsha and a promoter of Indian goods. “Right from the start, whenever I administered the oath of Abhinav Bharat, I made the newcomers aware of the sacrifices they’ll have to make, forego their houses, property, pleasures of life, reputation, affection of the beloved, & be ready for death”. With the aim of ‘Absolute Political Independence of India’, he established a group called Mitra Mela of 3 members in 1899 that transformed into Abhinav Bharat in 1904 with branches in England, France, Germany, America, Hong Kong, Singapore and Burma. At that young an age, Savarkar vowed to liberate his motherland from the British slavery. This is an attempt to contextually introduce the man who deserved to be revered by a nation that all but failed him.īorn in Bhagur near Nasik on on 28th May, 1883 at 10 p.m, Veer Savarkar lost his mother to cholera at 10 years of age and his father due to plague at 16. And an unmitigated commitment to uplifting the destiny of his nation. But most people know little of the man whose life was a roller coaster of struggle, sacrifices, sufferings and defiance.
We have seen him placed on a pedestal, viciously vilified, often quoted, sung paens to, ridiculed and discarded to the dustbins of history.
We have known Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as an author, a thinker, a giant nationalist philosopher, a poet, a person convicted for patriotism. Savarkar: How a Nation Failed a Man who Deserved to be Revered
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