Vaibhav Purandare is a senior editor at The Times of India and author of the critically acclaimed Sachin Tendulkar: A Definitive Biography and Bal Thackeray & the Rise of the Shiv Sena.
<p>Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is one of the most fascinating men in Indian history. A man who in the first part of his life wanted Hindu–Muslim unity yet later became the father of Hindutva. A man who called for complete independence twenty years before the Congress but didn’t participate in the Quit India movement. A man who in his younger days was friendly with Gandhi but was later seen as the inspiration behind his killing. <span style="font-size: 1rem;">Based on Savarkar’s original Marathi papers accounts of his contemporaries several of them untranslated from Marathi court and government records and newspapers of the time this new biography is packed with fresh details. Written in </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">a lively page-turning style this is a riveting and unbiased account of Savarkar’s life and the only book you will need to read to truly understand him. </span></p>
