Our heroes are after all falliable
Savarkar is complex and willifying him by the liberal and left liberal media will only do harm to the fabric of the nation and escalate tensions - Shantanu Gharpure . I’d invite him to enlighten us further on Savarkar beyond this post It was after this conversation, for the first time, I realised I was maybe wrong in my assumptions of Savarkar. I too had not read well. But with some time I’ve read opposing views and core texts to understand him better and this is a culmination of those efforts . I have analysed his role as a poet, a patriot, a social reformer and a statesmen involved in building the nation. The regular critique of his apology to the British doubting his patriotism get quashed once his patriotism is proven in the below article and therefore was not necessary to be included explicitly. ———————————————————————- At the outset, the idea of Savarkar is not very well understood by non-Marathi media in India due to the language restrictions and 'lost in...