01041nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100003700041245005200078260003200130300003600162520070100198773003200899260513b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by Purushottam Agrawal   aWho is it who is not ruined by his own nature?   aBiblio: A Review of Books    a30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.15-16  aThe new Lcon: Savarkar and facts by Arun Shourie Penguin Viking Penguin random house India, 2025, 543pp. Rs. 999 (HB) ISBN 978-0-143-47433-3. 


The difference in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ecosystem, attitude to Savarkar then and now is indeed a matter of curiosity, and so is the plethora of alternative facts being manufactured to glorify and iconize him. Arun Shourie verifies  some of these alternative, faces with the real ones, screutinses many of Savarkar own statements and delves into the making of various myths about Savarkar, tracing the origin of some to the man himself. His book dens into claim to be a holistic, is instead a much needed historical fact check. –Reproduced   aBiblio: A Review of Books