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Oha! PIO and NRI and Indian diaspora – the denizens of different climes and countries. These global sobriquets are the gift of your motherland, your homeland of Rajasthan India. The land of your birth has been portrayed in colourful costumes and contours of the royals and regal dignitaries in the book 'The State Administration in Rajasthan' authored by Dr. Shyam Singh Tanwar.
This book is the conduit to revisit your homeland of yesteryears. Behold! Your former Maharajas and their Darbars, coupled with the world of harems and harlots, of queens and concubines and royal rituals and festivals. The Darbaris were none else than the scions of some ancestral royals who were called Lord, Thakoor or Jagirdar and their land called Jagir.
The principle of hereditary was practiced and observed on all occasions of succession.The book beckons you Oha! Rajasthanis to revisit your alma mater with all the pristine glory of gorgeous Darbars and their pageantries during their special occasions like royal birth-days or royal weddings containing a string of tastefully decorated colourful elephants and horses. The salient feature of the book is the royal signatures and insignia appending the foreword of the book.
A freedom fighter who fought his myriad battles in India, in England and in Europe. He thought by day and mused by night how to liberate Bharat Mata from the alien bondage. While studying for Barristry, he Londonized the freedom struggle by celebration of 50th Anniversary of 1857 war of independence. On this occasion he paid high-octane emotional tributes to 1857 martyrs by his famous pamphlet 'O! Martyrs' the opening line was the Brahmaastra:
Oh Martyrs The battle of freedom once begun And handed down from sire to son Though often lost is ever won!!
Fearing insecurity in London, he took the Masaal of Freedom to Paris in France. From Paris the freedom struggle was Germanized by Madam Cama who unfurled freedom's flag there. Thus the liberty battle was Europeanized. In the third phase, Savarkar became 'Veer Savarkar' when he escaped from the clutches of the Brits captors and landed on the French soil. It was an epoch making event which had it repercussion through the world, he sued the mighty Albion in the international court of justice at Hague. This act of Veer Savarkar internationalized Indian The English ruler could not digest this humiliation of standing in dock as an accused in the International Court of Justice, so the outraged Bombay Court sentenced Veer Savarkar for two transportations for life i.e. 50 long years of imprisonment. When an English official reminded Veer Savarkar of 50 long years of incarceration Veer Savarkar rebuffed him by saying that the British Raj would not last that long.
England however peddled her mighty influence to every European country and won the case. The verdict went against Savarkar. Thus, singlehandedly Veer Savarkar fought his battle against the concert of Europe, but lost the case. He played his cards excellently well but the fate was against him. He lost this epic battle but it left the imperial beast badly bruised and shattered status and dignity.
He was a patriot and a patriot of patriots. How? Even the lifelong enemy testified posthumously that Veer Savarkar was 'a patriot and philosopher' inscribed on a blue plaque and put it up at the India House. This is a certificate of greatness, which the British bestowed on only Indian barrister, after keeping him in bondage for 27 years.
Thus, Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar born patriot, lived patriot, fought patriot, died patriot – mark well! Certified post-demise patriot. So a poet has poetized:
Gandhi's love of motherland, was a thing apart. But it was, Savarkar's whole existence.
Tremendous upheavals have taken place and are taking place in India and the world. While the flames of vintage fires of French and Russian revolutions rekindled in the countries of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya and having razed the dictatorial regimes to the ground there, are now fast engulfing other Gulf countries. Bharat too is feeling the heat of the fires. In Bharat a different kind of storm – the tussle between the public and the parliament somewhat rehearsing the British glorious revolution of 1688 – is brewing and gathering momentum.
Over the years, the Bharat Sarkar has been privy to high-profile corruption and generation of black money. It has been directly or indirectly, wittingly or unwittingly, helping and hiding the guilty men from the legal prosecution by providing them politically powered umbrella. The result? The BharatiyaRepublic having fallen into a state of the Proverbial Orwellian Republic of the Animal Farm has been bracketed with the banana republic.
A rot has set in our body politic eroding and obliterating altogether nationalism and patriotism from the public psyche. Therefore, this work has been undertaken with two objectives. One, to restore and resuscitate the near defunct national feelings and patriotic sentiments which were so nobly espoused by our freedom fighters, among our youngsters particularly the career aspirants who are the future managers of our national affairs. Two, why bilingual? To bring in the net the common man, the lay man, the half-literates or the semi-literates besides reaching out to the intellectuals and the educated masses. Hence this bilingual set up of mutual Hindi-English expressions taking the readers in a rollercoaster ride to enjoy and enlighten themselves.
The De-oblivionizing the Obvious:
"The Bhule Bisare Krantikaris" is a book full of incentivization which are sometimes obvious and sometimes obscurant. It is an attempt to focus to the public gaze, the creeds and deeds of those patriot-cum-martyrs who eschewed their homes and hearths for liberating Bharat Mata from the alien clutches. Since they were commoners so they remained outside the purview of the top-down history books. Now that the pendulum has swing to the other side and bottom-up history is fast coming up to stay. Martyrology has a bright future. History sans martyrology is insipid and dull hence the quip; it is not enough that gum should be adhesive; it must be nutritive as well. Ours is a research treatise containing a cursory biography of a few of the myriads of myriads martyrs as a token of recognition of their sacrifices at the altar of motherland. We have simply set the ball rolling for future researchers and historians who would carry forward this discipline of martyrology by providing proper space and status in the national phyche. Godse is credited to be the pioneer in voicing the woes of patriots-cum-martyrs. Someone ventriloquising his emotion recollected in tranquility, puts it in the Sophoclean poetic strain:
Godse not long ago Heard it on the Sindhu and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of martyrs' misery
Today, the language is invariably following the foot steps of the ever enlarging circle of knowledge society. With the recent IT explosion and the influx of cyber concepts, the complexion of every language is undergoing a sea change. Every language is descending from its literary ivory tower to assume the new role of a performing language. This bilingual treatise is an attempt how to model the words and sentences as per new paradigms of philosophy, science & technology, globalization, environment, culture, caste, creed and secularism, five-star hotels, the vagaries of the TV-serials, the murky machination of politicians, the power grabbing political parties and the T-factor (terrorist) etc. There are a lot of things happening that show us that this right now is a time to learn. Man takes real notice of a language only after another man has taken notice of it. There is no one way to language learning.
With regards to Hindi-English controversy, if we adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglect the goose we would be without the asset that produces golden eggs. The great breakthroughs are breaks with old ways of thinking. It is time to learn when to say ‘yes’ and what it takes to say ‘no.
Putting ideas of L1 across the wide spectrum of L2 or vice versa is an art and like all other arts remains and will ever remain a process, a practice rather than a perfection. It is just like going for a ride on two horses and the artist’s job is bit difficult in keeping the two horses on an even keel. It is, they say, a journey not a destination. The translator has to fathom the depth of ideas and thoughts of first, then search for lexical items of L2 and compare them and while comparing he must draw a line between what is ‘possible’ and what is ‘probable’.
India with its about twenty regional languages needs Hindi and English for inter-regional communication and interaction. The people of southern India, with a rich tradition of our culture and Sanskrit and those use of eastern India with its own glorious regional linguistic traditions will find this bilingual treasure useful for their practical life as well as for their literary workshops. The book has been trisected into three zones: primary, secondary and tertiary. On the linguistic maturity continuum, these zones provide an incremental, sequential and highly integrated approach to proficiency of language. The baskets have the gift of being simple without being simplistic. They are transformational in content and transactional in intent. The various baskets are synergistic and we have to learn and internalize the wisdom encapsulated in the strategies of effective sentence making. Language learning is not like having wealth but rather it is like having the power to produce wealth.
The primaryzone explains the grammar rules and introduces the reader with the basics and fundamental structure, homonyms and phrases. The secondary zone is meant to give– ‘Hi-fi shots’ of lingua franca to the readers. This is a dossier of two highly developed ancient languages, one national and the other international. The various baskets in the zone embody the wisdom, the experience, the reflections of great thinkers, philosophers, academicians and literary big wigs, distinguishing the eternal from the ephemeral the sublime from the trivial, the transient from the permanent. The secondary zone unfolds the kaleidoscope and colourful plumage of the English bird, its idiom and idiosyncrasy. This is the zone of ‘wisdom of ages in words’. A variety of baskets depicts the thoughts and ideas of writers & thinkers with all their beauty of idiom-friendly and usage affinity. It is also the zone of concept formation of ergonomics. The literary basket is an embodiment of the flights of fancy and deep observation of men and matters of great writers novelist, play-writes poets and critics. It is a compendium of wit and wisdom, a mixture of facts and fiction, of levity and seriousness and it is not only what they have to say but also how well they say. The literary basket has its inspiring and motivational aspects as well for those fans studying Hindi or English literature.
The theological and theosophical baskets highlight the fact that we are not human beings having spiritual experience but we are spiritual beings having a human experience. The seedling basket gives the working tools which are the basics of English and Hindi, where as the Grammatical basket pin points vital topics for language learners. The essay basket gives the dynamics of the art of making paragraphs on topics which have relevance for those who are competition aspirants. The quality & effectiveness of sentences is main determinant of merit or success in competitions. Mark the dividing line between correct sentences and quality sentences. Sentences give the measure of the mind of the writer and this differentiates the mediocre from the meritorious.
The style of expression counts, what matters is not what is said but how it is said. It is an art of manipulating lexical words into live words. The words are the carriers of ideas and thoughts of the writer on the subject matter which forms the substance of sentences. The grammatical and the seedling baskets are meant to give ‘corrective shots’ to the users of the language in the art of sentence constructions and structures for effective communication skills. The tertiary zone is an essay-friendly one giving ideas & thoughts an current topics and some reflections which shift the fact from fiction. It is an attempt pondering the imponderables.
The appendix is a new version of the proverb of old wines in new bottles; it is an oriental wisdom in an accidental wrapper.We express our sincere gratitude.
During our near three decades of research, we have stumbled upon a forgotten and neglected vital part of our history text-books – the story of the martyred freedom fighter and consequently we pooled up all our energy and time in quest of all the patriots who fought freedom's battle from time to time. They are many, they are myriad. Each one's sufferings and sacrifices weigh more and more poignant. We have chosen some as per our discreation to bring home the publishers and the readers the existence of such a discipline as 'martyrology'. Hence the book.
The book epitomizes how our patriots fought their battles against the British colonialists for the emancipation and welfare of our motherland and when the Britishers in their efforts to silence and prevent their adversaries from anti-British activities and speeches by arresting them and then in the ritual of judicial trial which were more flaunting than fair, our freedom fighters were no less valiant in fighting the legal battles as well and every time they argued well in the legal trials and appeared to have won in the court but they lost in the final judgment.
We are indeed pleased and proud to put this little science compendium into the hands of our tender teenager talents who will be the torch bearers and beacon light houses of the 21st century and would carry forward the mega-achievements of the 20th century on to the next generation. We are presenting them a mere brick and hopefully expect that they will make it a marble. When Yudhister asked BhishmaPitamaha: ‘What is the supreme truth? ‘There is noting greater than man’ came the cryptic reply. In fact science is not given or gotten as a gift. It is not mana that has fallen in to the outstretched hands of man, but it is a product of incessant labour of man, generation after generation over a space of time. There is difference in ‘science’ and ‘science and technology’. The former is an attempt to unravel the mysteries of nature and natural laws while the latter refers to application of universal laws for the service of mankind. Science has penetrated not only inorganic world but also organic as well.
Cloning of animals and plants (even human being) has opened new horizons for new breed of human beings. The human body is replaced by robots, the human mind by computers. Human activities relating to business by e-commerce, education by ‘edu sat’, medicine by e-medicine, postal services by e-post, religions puja by e-puja, books by e-books in short the prefix ‘e’ is omnipresent in all events and activities. There is a tide of ‘e’ in the affairs of man.
In the 21st century man is passing through the theories of the IT revolution: Darwin’s survival of the fittest is losing much of its substance, now it is survival of the ‘Know-all’. The future of mankind will be characterized by ‘knowledge man’ and ‘knowledge society and knowledge nation in the knowledge world. This IT’s explosion is becoming infinite. Its next development is grid technology. In 1989 Tim Burers Lee invented internet. Now the European particle physics laboratory Geneva is heading for another mega revolution in informatics – the Grid Technology – connecting ten top laboratories of the world. The net working of computers of the labs will facilitates prompt exchange of information. The user will enter his query and the Grid will make available all the information on that subject instantaneously. And every computer connected with the Grid will work as super computer.
Sam Pitroda – the father of Indian IT revolution, has made India a major global player in the IT. We can use the great powers of science to meet the basic human needs relating to food, health, water energy, education and employment. Secondly we should use science and technology to create wealth both by enterprises and by individual entrepreneurs. Lastly we would have to embark on a major thrust in emerging knowledge based areas such as informatics, biotechnology new and renewable energy source and environment – related programmes. There is a grand reconciliation now going on between science and religion. Recent scientific discoveries seem to validate the concept of Brahma. The physicists and cosmologists are close to proving that there is one source behind physical universe – ‘The unified field’. The vedantic Brahma appears to the synonymous of the unified field of scientists.
We will soon be eating and drinking – e-food and e-milk. The USA has already given green signal to the meat and milk of the cloned live stock for human consumption. Another Hi-tech stride is being made in the production of e-energy. Limitless energy and that too at the fraction of the cost paid now will be possible by the manipulation of the lone electron of Hydrogen atom and keeping it in a lower orbit than natural thus releasing profound energy. This energy generator hydrogen atom is named ‘hydrino’. Today we are sailing on the high seas of science where the air is not suffocating or rarefied but elixir and invigorating. Our world is e-world and our life is e-life. Be ready for e-baptism.
THE SCIENCE
Science is knowledge, often as opposed to intuition, belief, etc. It is, in fact systematized knowledge derived from observation, study and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied. There are many sciences, each concerned with a particular field of study. In each science measurement plays an important part. In each science, too, a study is made of the laws according to which objects react. Corpus of some sciences is given in capsule form. We are conscious of apparent many lacunae and loopholes, obvious, voids and gaps in this science treatise and so we exhort all the knowledge persons of the knowledge society to convey us ‘the left-overs’ and we shall gratefully acknowledge their ‘pointings’ in the next edition.
We feel a deep sense of gratitude:
- toDeepak Tanwar for supplying cardinal concepts of science which have enriched the quality of the book and enhanced its value content. He has helped us in supervising the computer work at various stages and under took the arduous task of proof reading.
We are indeed pleased and proud to put this little science compendium into the hands of our tender teenager talents who will be the torch bearers and beacon light houses of the 21st century and would carry forward the mega-achievements of the 20th century on to the next generation. We are presenting them a mere brick and hopefully expect that they will make it a marble. When Yudhister asked BhishmaPitamaha: ‘What is the supreme truth? ‘There is noting greater than man’ came the cryptic reply. In fact science is not given or gotten as a gift. It is not mana that has fallen in to the outstretched hands of man, but it is a product of incessant labour of man, generation after generation over a space of time. There is difference in ‘science’ and ‘science and technology’. The former is an attempt to unravel the mysteries of nature and natural laws while the latter refers to application of universal laws for the service of mankind. Science has penetrated not only inorganic world but also organic as well.
Cloning of animals and plants (even human being) has opened new horizons for new breed of human beings. The human body is replaced by robots, the human mind by computers. Human activities relating to business by e-commerce, education by ‘edu sat’, medicine by e-medicine, postal services by e-post, religions puja by e-puja, books by e-books in short the prefix ‘e’ is omnipresent in all events and activities. There is a tide of ‘e’ in the affairs of man.
In the 21st century man is passing through the theories of the IT revolution: Darwin’s survival of the fittest is losing much of its substance, now it is survival of the ‘Know-all’. The future of mankind will be characterized by ‘knowledge man’ and ‘knowledge society and knowledge nation in the knowledge world. This IT’s explosion is becoming infinite. Its next development is grid technology. In 1989 Tim Burers Lee invented internet. Now the European particle physics laboratory Geneva is heading for another mega revolution in informatics – the Grid Technology – connecting ten top laboratories of the world. The net working of computers of the labs will facilitates prompt exchange of information. The user will enter his query and the Grid will make available all the information on that subject instantaneously. And every computer connected with the Grid will work as super computer.
Sam Pitroda – the father of Indian IT revolution, has made India a major global player in the IT. We can use the great powers of science to meet the basic human needs relating to food, health, water energy, education and employment. Secondly we should use science and technology to create wealth both by enterprises and by individual entrepreneurs. Lastly we would have to embark on a major thrust in emerging knowledge based areas such as informatics, biotechnology new and renewable energy source and environment – related programmes. There is a grand reconciliation now going on between science and religion. Recent scientific discoveries seem to validate the concept of Brahma. The physicists and cosmologists are close to proving that there is one source behind physical universe – ‘The unified field’. The vedantic Brahma appears to the synonymous of the unified field of scientists.
We will soon be eating and drinking – e-food and e-milk. The USA has already given green signal to the meat and milk of the cloned live stock for human consumption. Another Hi-tech stride is being made in the production of e-energy. Limitless energy and that too at the fraction of the cost paid now will be possible by the manipulation of the lone electron of Hydrogen atom and keeping it in a lower orbit than natural thus releasing profound energy. This energy generator hydrogen atom is named ‘hydrino’. Today we are sailing on the high seas of science where the air is not suffocating or rarefied but elixir and invigorating. Our world is e-world and our life is e-life. Be ready for e-baptism.
THE SCIENCE
Science is knowledge, often as opposed to intuition, belief, etc. It is, in fact systematized knowledge derived from observation, study and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied. There are many sciences, each concerned with a particular field of study. In each science measurement plays an important part. In each science, too, a study is made of the laws according to which objects react. Corpus of some sciences is given in capsule form. We are conscious of apparent many lacunae and loopholes, obvious, voids and gaps in this science treatise and so we exhort all the knowledge persons of the knowledge society to convey us ‘the left-overs’ and we shall gratefully acknowledge their ‘pointings’ in the next edition.
We feel a deep sense of gratitude:
- toDeepak Tanwar for supplying cardinal concepts of science which have enriched the quality of the book and enhanced its value content. He has helped us in supervising the computer work at various stages and under took the arduous task of proof reading.
We are indeed pleased and proud to put this little science compendium into the hands of our tender teenager talents who will be the torch bearers and beacon light houses of the 21st century and would carry forward the mega-achievements of the 20th century on to the next generation. We are presenting them a mere brick and hopefully expect that they will make it a marble. When Yudhister asked BhishmaPitamaha: ‘What is the supreme truth? ‘There is noting greater than man’ came the cryptic reply. In fact science is not given or gotten as a gift. It is not mana that has fallen in to the outstretched hands of man, but it is a product of incessant labour of man, generation after generation over a space of time. There is difference in ‘science’ and ‘science and technology’. The former is an attempt to unravel the mysteries of nature and natural laws while the latter refers to application of universal laws for the service of mankind. Science has penetrated not only inorganic world but also organic as well.
Cloning of animals and plants (even human being) has opened new horizons for new breed of human beings. The human body is replaced by robots, the human mind by computers. Human activities relating to business by e-commerce, education by ‘edu sat’, medicine by e-medicine, postal services by e-post, religions puja by e-puja, books by e-books in short the prefix ‘e’ is omnipresent in all events and activities. There is a tide of ‘e’ in the affairs of man.
In the 21st century man is passing through the theories of the IT revolution: Darwin’s survival of the fittest is losing much of its substance, now it is survival of the ‘Know-all’. The future of mankind will be characterized by ‘knowledge man’ and ‘knowledge society and knowledge nation in the knowledge world. This IT’s explosion is becoming infinite. Its next development is grid technology. In 1989 Tim Burers Lee invented internet. Now the European particle physics laboratory Geneva is heading for another mega revolution in informatics – the Grid Technology – connecting ten top laboratories of the world. The net working of computers of the labs will facilitates prompt exchange of information. The user will enter his query and the Grid will make available all the information on that subject instantaneously. And every computer connected with the Grid will work as super computer.
Sam Pitroda – the father of Indian IT revolution, has made India a major global player in the IT. We can use the great powers of science to meet the basic human needs relating to food, health, water energy, education and employment. Secondly we should use science and technology to create wealth both by enterprises and by individual entrepreneurs. Lastly we would have to embark on a major thrust in emerging knowledge based areas such as informatics, biotechnology new and renewable energy source and environment – related programmes. There is a grand reconciliation now going on between science and religion. Recent scientific discoveries seem to validate the concept of Brahma. The physicists and cosmologists are close to proving that there is one source behind physical universe – ‘The unified field’. The vedantic Brahma appears to the synonymous of the unified field of scientists.
We will soon be eating and drinking – e-food and e-milk. The USA has already given green signal to the meat and milk of the cloned live stock for human consumption. Another Hi-tech stride is being made in the production of e-energy. Limitless energy and that too at the fraction of the cost paid now will be possible by the manipulation of the lone electron of Hydrogen atom and keeping it in a lower orbit than natural thus releasing profound energy. This energy generator hydrogen atom is named ‘hydrino’. Today we are sailing on the high seas of science where the air is not suffocating or rarefied but elixir and invigorating. Our world is e-world and our life is e-life. Be ready for e-baptism.
THE SCIENCE
Science is knowledge, often as opposed to intuition, belief, etc. It is, in fact systematized knowledge derived from observation, study and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied. There are many sciences, each concerned with a particular field of study. In each science measurement plays an important part. In each science, too, a study is made of the laws according to which objects react. Corpus of some sciences is given in capsule form. We are conscious of apparent many lacunae and loopholes, obvious, voids and gaps in this science treatise and so we exhort all the knowledge persons of the knowledge society to convey us ‘the left-overs’ and we shall gratefully acknowledge their ‘pointings’ in the next edition.
We feel a deep sense of gratitude:
- toDeepak Tanwar for supplying cardinal concepts of science which have enriched the quality of the book and enhanced its value content. He has helped us in supervising the computer work at various stages and under took the arduous task of proof reading.
After the passage of 70 years when the dust and heat of the freedom's battles have settled down and the disputants and contestants had all exited and disappeared from the political stage, we are now in the better position to evaluate and estimate the roles and contributions of those freedom fighters who strutted on the national stage in the 20th Century. What with the declassified diplomatic documents and what with the archival articles of eminent scholars, we are now in a position of compiling and editing an impartial and absolutely objective history.
Our scholars and academician had been captives of the frogs-in-the-well mentality for over 70 years, so they couldn’t see much less appreciate the big picture depicting sacrifices and sufferings of ace patriots and 360o martyrs. The big three stalwart patriots, Tilak, Savarkar and Bose who vigorously orchestrated and archived the freedom of India more than anyone else in the legions of freedom fighters, were persona-non-grata of the British Raj and were regarded as dangerous (D label) by the British Government, while Tilak and Savarkar fought cryptic battles of freedom. Subhash Chandra Bose fought his India's freedom battle on the Indian Thermopylae.
While Savarkar was in a jail at Andaman, he inscribed two lines in verse, on its wall in Marathi of which English version is:
“We have not taken this pledge with our eyes shut. We have chosen this path of struggle keeping the history in mind. With great determination to burn in the fire we have taken the pledge to sacrifice our lives for the nation."
The above lines show his intense patriotism very beautifully; but the then Central Minister Manishankar Ayer could not bear these lines. The strong patriotic sentiments were not acceptable to perverted attitude and arrogant intellect of Ayer; therefore, with his sinful hands, he removed the said lines.
What They Saw and Said
• For most Indians of my generation, Savarkar was a somewhat shadowy figure, rarely mentioned in any detail in history books; even less so at public events or occasions that commemorate India’s independence. For a small few though, he was the archetypical hero, the one who fought fearlessly against the British, the (brave) as some of you would know, by the time India became a republic in 1950, Savarkar was already on the path to oblivion. A few years later, he died, unsung and hardly mourned.
• The life of Savarkar (1883-1966) was so uniquely variegated that it is almost unbelievable that one individual could possess such an intellect, such talent, such intensity as to be a firebrand freedom fighter from childhood, a potential barrister, a writer of history, poetry and Sanskrit prayers, a social reformer and a distinctive political ideologue with a prophetic vision on the fate of Kashmir.
• One thing that constantly astonishes us is our ignorance of Indian history. We admit that freely and feel sorry for ourself and for the hundreds of millions of Indians who are ignorant like us. We are partly to blame but we should remember that the Indian Government, what I should really call the British Government part II, which started off with faux Britisher Jawaharlal Nehru at the helm, did much to misrepresent Indian history. Thanks to the interwebs (and thanks to Al Gore for inventing them internets), slowly I am learning a bit of history.
• Savarkar was quite unconcerned about the Muslim reaction to his scheme. He formulates his scheme and throws it in the face of the Muslims with the covering letter 'take it or leave it.' Savarkar is quite prepared to say to the Muslims: "If you come, with you, if you don't, without you; and if you oppose, in spite of you, the Hindus will continue to fight for their national freedom as best as they can."
In 1911, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was sentenced to transportation for life, twice, to Andaman Islands; the sentences were to be served in succession. Savarkar's personal property and possessions, including his spectacles, were confiscated. His father-in-law Chiplunkar was Dewan of Jawhar Principality in Thane District. British authorities forced the Raja of Jawhar to sack Chiplunkar and expel him from Jawhar State overnight.
Post-Independence generations have been fed on a staple diet of false and motivated history, that we won freedom through non-violent means. A natural corollary of this theory is that British Rule was largely benign, despite some stray excesses. In return, the English gave us the railways, English education, a system of administration, a sense of oneness. A nation fed on the fiction of ‘freedoms without bloody sacrifices’ can hardly cherish it, much less defend it with bloody sacrifices. If truth be told, freedom was not won by pleas, prayers and petitions. It was won inspite of congressmen like Gandhiji and Nehru who would had been happy with less.
A freedom fighter that fought his myriad battles in India, in England and in Europe, he thought by day and mused by night how to liberate Bharat Mata from the alien bondage. While studying for Barrister, he London-ized the freedom struggle by celebration of Anniversary of 1857 War of Independence. On this occasion he paid high-octane emotional tributes to 1857 martyrs by his famous pamphlet 'Oh! Martyrs'.
Fearing insecurity in London, he took the Masaal of freedom to Paris (France) from Paris the freedom struggle was Germanized by Madam Cama who unfurled freedom's flag there, thus the liberty battle was Europeanized. In the third phase, Savarkar became ' Savarkar' when he escaped from the clutches of the Brits captors and landed on the French soil. It was an epoch making event which had it repercussion throughout the world, he sued the mighty Albion in the International Court of Justice at Hague this act of Savarkar internationalized Indian freedom struggle. England however peddled her mighty influence to every European country and won the case. The verdict went against Savarkar, though he lost this epic battle but it left the imperial beast badly bruised and shattered its status and dignity.
The Tribunal concluded, “That the Government of His Britannic Majesty is not required to restore the said Vinayak Damodar Savarkar to the Government of the French Republic.”
Thus Vinayak Damodar Savarkar born patriot, lived patriot, fought patriot, died patriot, mark well! Certified post-demise patriot.
