“A
reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep
their eyes on the spot where the crack was.”
- Joseph
Hall
Hi, Everyone! In the
last so many posts we have seen the lengths that Gandhi-Nehru-led Congress went
to in getting rid of their “bête noire”—as they saw him—Jinnah.
Nehru has even written
in his jail diary on December 28, 1943:
"Instinctively I think it is
better to have Pakistan or almost nothing if only to keep Jinnah far away and
not allow his muddled and arrogant head from (sic) interfering continually in
India's progress" (Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru; First Series;
Vol.13; page 324).
For them partition of
the Indian motherland was not too big a price to pay in their quest for
power . . . !
Savarkar was another
whom the Congress High Command considered a thorn in their flesh. They must
have wished dearly that he too could be got rid of; for though in failing
health and retired from politics, Savarkar was still a force to be reckoned
with. He had been exposing the Congress’s harmful intent toward India—how they
must have gnashed their teeth over it!—and there was every chance that the
Hindu Mahasabha could be a formidable opponent in the next elections.
How to neutralize both must have
been a thought that occupied Jawaharlal Nehru’s mind after independence.
And then an ideal
opportunity fell into his lap. With a diabolical masterstroke, Nehru (as the
Prime Minister of India he can certainly be held responsible for it) entangled
Savarkar by charging him as a co-conspirator in the Mahatma’s assassination.
And he simultaneously unleashed such a Reign of Terror against all the
Hindutva-minded people, that people were forced to dust their hands of Savarkar
just to save their own skins.
So much mud was flung
at Savarkar, his name, his reputation that even an acquittal from the Special
Court of India was not enough to wash away the mud.
Even today, Congress
and its mouthpieces continue to fling mud at him. This was one of the first
things I realized when I began researching on Savarkar four years ago. This
injustice is what has driven me to write my novel Burning for Freedom. And now drives me to expose Gandhi and the
Congress Culpability in the partition of India.
In India, at least as far as
Savarkar is concerned, never mind the concept of “Innocent until proven
guilty”—even the concept of “Innocent when proven innocent by the Court” is not
accepted!!
I have come across many
people—and not just Congress-followers, but people who claim to be
“Savarkarites” and others too—who imply that Savakar was involved in the
conspiracy of Gandhi’s assassination just because he was closely associated
with Nathuram Godse.
Today, Savarkar and his name and
reputation are victims of Congress Savarkar-bashing, brainwashing of the
Indians, and an apparent inability of many to grasp the legalities along with
no respect for the Indian Judiciary system that acquitted Savarkar.
Unfortunately, it is
clearly a case of “too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thought.”[1]
It is extraordinary
that Indians are as one in turning a blind eye toward the numerous and horrific
dodgy doings of their Mahatma—and yet they are unable to take a suspicious eye
off Savarkar for things he did not do!
In the next five posts I
am going to write on some details of the Gandhi-Murder Case and the Kapur
Commission which (aided and abetted by Frontline and A. G. Noorani) has quite a
large hand in maintaining the fiction of Savarkar’s involvement in Gandhi’s
assassination.
Anurupa
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