Was Savarkar a freedom fighter or a traitor?
35 years of stay in jail was a punishment and not honeymoon. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born in the Maharashtrian Brahmin family in the village of Bhagur, near the city of Nashik, Maharashtra. He created the ideology of “Hindutva”(Hinduness) in 1923. He used the term ‘Hindutva’ to describe ‘Hinduness’ or the ‘quality of being a Hindu’.…