"In parenthesis, and with due respect, it strikes the modern reader that Savarkar’s writing is full of superlatives. In publications of lesser Hindutva writers, the situation is often much worse: they sound almost as emotional as Syed Shahabuddin’s diatribes. After all that Rishis and Tirthankaras and Buddhas have taught about the value of dispassionate observation, it is disappointing to find that Hindu writers cannot keep their cool and go off on an emotional tangent of either bombastic glorification or sterile self-pity."
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (May 28, 1883 – February 26, 1966) was an Indian politician and ideologue. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1923. The prefix "Veer" (meaning 'brave') was given by himself when he penned his own biography under the pseudonym Chitragupta. He was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha.
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