Full text of petition from V.D. Savarkar to the Government of India, dated March 20, 1920. — In view of the recent statement of the Hon. Member for the Home Department to the Government of India, to the effect that ‘the Government was willing to consider the papers of any individual, and given them their best consideration if they were brought before them’; and that ‘as soon…

Petition from V.D. Savarkar to the Government of India, dated October 4, 1917: To His Honour, the Secretary to the Government of India Home Department May it please your Honour! Some three years ago, in 1914, I had sent a petition on the following points to the Government of India; and Lord Hardinge was pleased to let me know that it was ‘impossible’…

Full text of petition submitted by V.D. Savarkar to the Chief Commissioner, Andaman Islands, October 1914: — To the Chief Commissioner, Sir, The undersigned petitioner most humbly begs to tender the following petition, with a fervent hope that it will be forwarded to the Indian Government. - Ever since this world shaking war that is now being fought in Europe broke out, nothing has sent such a…

Introduction The following four posts shall be dedicated to a paragraph-wise, concise commentary on Savarkar’s petitions. I have judged that it is not expedient to post the entirety of Savarkar’s petitions and follow thereafter with the commentary; that it is more expedient to comment after every paragraph, for the purpose alike…

The ship of memory charts the most enthralling of courses, for when it might asudden set sail, none could possibly predict. It is, I imagine, exceedingly common for friends to reminisce about the joyous moments of yore, but the solitary figure may be supposed to recall things with a certain…

The burgeoning of the BJP and its ascendancy — so much so that it is now the largest political party in the world in terms of membership — was a phenomenon deprived of a sufficient study. In terms of a disruption on the political stage, it is hardly different from…

The sun does not deign, in the seventh hour of a wintry anti meridiem, to illuminate the blue planet; that curiously lone sphere of sentient life in the solar system; the sphere which we call Earth. Accordingly, on the streets of a relatively less bustling zone of the city, there…

The city is rich, the idyll too, The one home to in-service din, And bustle of the one and the two, Of bruvs and brood, a creatural win, Yet from ayond the civil design, A voice would call to a restless mind, To tread from stone to verdant dell, To the other, the home of Meadwise kin…

While having been in public life for decades now, it may reasonably be said that Dr. Tharoor first shot to popular fame in 2015, when as an orator in the Oxford Union Debate, supporting the motion, “Britain owes reparations to her former colonies”, he had the temerity, so opine Indians…