With economic liberalization, the Pokhran nuclear tests, our space conquests and rapid urbanization instead of gram swaraj—not to speak of course of the ascendant political right in India today that claims its ideological lineage from him—it is perhaps Savarkar’s vision of India that is fructifying and not Gandhi’s. Yet, he is the one icon and the tragic anti-hero of Indian history who shall not be named or credited for any of those, even by his political proponents.
