Vinayak Damodar Savarkar had a dull life. Like Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, the Savarkar story can be summarised as “nothing happens — twice.” He spent two extended periods of his life under house arrest , first for annoying the Brits and then for annoying the Congress. Born in Bhagura, a village in Bombay Presidency, Savarkar came from a lower-middle-class Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family, which is to say precisely the kind of background likely to produce a Hindu nationalist. Tragedy struck early and often. Cholera picked off his mother, then plague his father. As a youth, Savarkar was already...
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