Thread | On the 137th birth anniversary of Veer Savarkar, here are some must-read pieces from Swarajya. #VeerSavarkar

His ideas are leading those who currently lead India. But in popular memory and discourse, Savarkar is still either maligned or ignored.

A new generation of scholars and writers seek to correct this anomaly.

@arvindneela https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/myths-legends-and-savarkar">https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/...

Two recent books on Savarkar explore the genesis of his philosophy and describe in detail how a radical anti-colonial revolutionary transformed into a ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat’.

@haryannvi https://swarajyamag.com/books/how-savarkar-transformed-from-a-radical-anti-colonial-revolutionary-to-a-hindu-hriday-samrat">https://swarajyamag.com/books/how...

One of the hallmarks of an original thinker is that his ideas can neither be predicted nor boxed into neat compartments. By that criterion, Savarkar was arguably the most original thinker from India in the last century. https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/why-you-could-not-predict-savarkars-ideas">https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/...

In this extract from Vaibhav Purandare’s biography of Savarkar, the author describes how his subject’s utterances for the sake of Hindu reform often rubbed Hindus themselves the wrong way.

@VaibhavP21 https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/the-caustic-reformer-how-savarkar-became-unpopular-among-a-section-of-hindus">https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/...

In this telling excerpt from his biography of Savarkar, author @vikramsampath describes the period of his incarceration in Andaman, and how it would transform him from merely a revolutionary to a leader, philosopher and social reformer. https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/savarkar-in-the-cells-of-andaman-the-revolutionary-grew-into-someone-far-greater">https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/...