However Mahatma Gandhi was a deeply religious man and how Savarkar was an atheist; how Mahatma Gandhi was vegetarian and believed in religion while Savarkar was a non-vegetarian and a modernist ...

Ihid the covers of the books I read about Savarkar for this piece. I wanted to be able to read in public without worrying about the judgment of strangers; without looking like another affluent Hindu ...

"Savarkar, on many occasions, had stated that he was an atheist and ate meat. I did not say anything new," Rao said in a statement. He clarified that his remarks were not personal attacks on ...

For some, the new spotlight on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who wrote one of the foundational texts of Hindutva politics, is an ideology’s ‘revenge’ on being a historical footnote for long.

Indian activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a highly controversial figure often associated with the concept of Hindutva, was the focus of a talk by academic Janaki Bakhle at IBA's City Campus on ...