135th Birth Anniversary of Veer Savarkar on the 28th May 2017
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Indian pro-independence activist, lawyer, politician, poet, writer and playwright. Savarkar coined the term Hindutva ( Hinduness ) to create a collective Hindu identity and he was against partition of India. Akanda Bharat was his vision. Savarkar , though being a staunch Hindu, was an atheist and rationalist who disapproved orthodox Hindu belief, dismissing cow worship as superstitious. During his stay in London, Savarkar coined the following slogan, while celebrating various Indian festivals like Raksha Bandan , Guru Gobind Singh Jayanthi , to create a unifying factor for the ultimate aim to liberate India from the British Rule: “One country, One God, One Caste, One Mind, Brothers all of us, Without Difference, Without Doubt.” It was during this period that Savarkar helped to design the first Indian National Flag, which Madame Cama unfurled at the world socialist conference at Stuttgart, Germany.