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#5 When Gandhi Met Savarkar

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अनादि मी अनंत मी अवध्य मी भला (I am timeless, I am boundless, I am immortal) - Savarkar "Aasindhu Sindhu paryanta yasya Bharata bhumika Pitribhu punyabhushchaiva sa vai Hinduriti Smritah" One who considers this vast stretch of land called Bharat From the Sindhu to the Sindhu (Indus to the Seas) as his fatherland (or land of one’s ancestors) and holy land is the one who will be termed and remembered as a Hindu. -Shloka by Savarkar "Peaceful evolution has a meaning and a sense, peaceful revolution has neither" - Savarkar Swatantrya Lakshmi ki Jai (Victory to the Goddess of Freedom) - Savarkar We have lost everything. We have no more faith in our own religion. Try to re-establish that in India. Shed no tears for what is lost. Shed drops of blood to regain what is lost- Savarkar  I recently finished reading Vikram Sampath's "Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past: 1883-1924", the 1st part of a two volume biography by Sampath. (The second part is yet