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Remembering Vinayak Damodar Savarkars on his Birth Anniversary: Five Facts to Know

Remembering Vinayak Damodar Savarkars on his Birth Anniversary: Five Facts to Know
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Remembering Vinayak Damodar Savarkars on his Birth Anniversary: Five Facts to Know
The often-heard term ‘Hindutva’ became popular after nationalist Indian independence activist and politician Vinayak Damodar Savarkar wrote a pamphlet of the same name in 1921, championing the cause of Hindus. Apart from his Hindu nationalism, Savarkar was also a passionate freedom fighter. On the 138th anniversary of his birth, we take a look at certain key facts from his personal life and political activism.
Political activism
As a college student, Savarkar founded a secret revolutionary society called Mitra Mela in 1899, with his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar. This evolved into the Abhinav Bharat Society, which was involved in the assassinations of British officials like William Curzon Wyllie and A.M.T Jackson. Savarkar reportedly supplie ....

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TMC attacks BJP, says Tagore was against narrow nationalism | India News

KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress expressed “surprise” at PM Narendra Modi’s “sudden enthusiasm” to establish the connection that Rabindranath Tagore and his family had with Modi’s home state, Gujarat.
“Tagore is not just Bengal’s poet. He is a visva kavi (world poet). Why is the PM trying to confine Tagore to a particular region?” Bengal science and technology minister Bratya Basu said, hours after the PM’s virtual Visva Bharati speech on Thursday.
Basu referred to Tagore’s novels and essays to assert that the bard’s world vision was more open and much above religious bigotry, narrow nationalism and “cow vigilantism”. “Will the PM take responsibility for the cow vigilantes who are killing people?” he asked. ....

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