Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (An Immortal Revolutionary of India)

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Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a great leader, was a political thinker, freedom fighter and a staunch Hinduist. He never hesitated in expressing clearly what he thought sincerely.

He started dreaming of a free India right from the early days of his student life. Though he went to Great Britain for higher education, his strong desire to see India free brought him in contact with the revolutionaries. He was arrested for his revolutionary activities and brought to India as a prisoner. On the way to India, he jumped into the sea from the deck of his ship, which shows his indomitable will and abiding love for his country.

He was awarded a severe punishment in India, and deported to Andaman & Nicobar Islands, but the hellish tortures of the Andaman (cellular jail) could not deviate him from his objective.

India attained freedom, but it was partitioned. So Veer Savarkar considere it an incomplete freedom, and continued to dream of a united India till the last days of his life. His burning love for his country will continue to inspire Indians for a long time to come.

Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is a matchless personality of India's movement for freedom. His sacrifice, struggle and indomitable zeal for the freedom, unity and prosperity of the motherland was totally rare, appreciable and exemplary. He plunged himself into the struggle for freedom of the motherland right from his childhood. This path was totally thorny. As a result, he had to face difficulties again and again. He was deported to Andamans to undergo two life sentences. Nobody could predict at that time that he would be able to visit his motherland, India, again, but luckily he returned to India ten years later. Terrible physical and mental tortures of Andamans could not deviate him from his call of duty. He did not waver in the face of continuous tortures and reprimands, and was always working to realise his objectives. He remained steadfast like the Pole Star.

His contribution to the freedom of this country was in no way less than of all those political leaders who, after the freedom of India, enjoyed spoils of its administration and power or those who believed in his principles. But it is a matter of both regret and surprise that most of the historians have not evaluated his activities in a just and reasonable manner. Even the government of free India did not accord that respect to this truly dedicated nationalist, indomitably zealous and committed devotee of united India, which he deserved eminently. But this detracts Veer Savarkar from his splendid and high place in history.