The book convincingly highlights the Godse-Savarkar nexus. And Savarkar, the ideologue of Hindutva, the political philosophy of the Bharatiya Janata Party under Modi and Amit Shah, is projected as a national hero. Godse is being eulogized publicly by a section of the sangh parivar like never before. ![]() This book by two journalists is timely because both Godse and Savarkar have received a new lease of life since the advent of Narendra Modi’s rule in 2014. Savarkar, the foremost leader of the Hindu Mahasabha - was revealed in the course of the investigation. The mind that inspired and guided the hand - V.D. The identity of the hand that killed Gandhi was known the same day - Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist from Maharashtra. ![]() The second tragedy, five months later, was the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest apostle of truth and nonviolence the world has seen in modern times. The first tragedy was India’s Partition: the Muslim League’s poisonous ‘Two Nation theory’, which created Pakistan and the genocide of over a million innocent Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs that midwifed it. The triumph was that India became free from colonial rule. One triumph and two tragedies accompanied the culmination of the British raj in India.
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