Vaibhav Purandare

About: Senior Editor, TOI | Unbiased Fact-Finder | Avid History Buff | Author of ‘Savarkar: The True Story Of The Father Of Hindutva’

BOOK

Name: Savarkar: The True Story Of The Father Of Hindutva

Publisher Name: Juggernaut Books

Genre: Historical Biography

Description:

About ‘Savarkar: The True Story Of The Father Of Hindutva’: This biography of V.D. Savarkar is based on Savarkar’s original Marathi papers, accounts of his contemporaries, court and government records, and newspapers of the time. Written in a lively, page-turning style, this is a riveting and unbiased account of Savarkar’s life.

“Vaibhav Purandare's Savarkar biography is a timely exploration of Hindutva ideology founder's life” - Firstpost

“(…)Thoughtful, both in its attention to Savarkar’s extremist and medieval views and to his complex relationship with the Raj” - Hindustan Times