All three occurrences singed India’s plural soul. Several years and countless Hindu-Muslim riots later, the unhealed wound on India’s plural ethos was violently cut open once again. It decided to place in Parliament House’s Central Hall, along with portraits of the Greats of India’s freedom struggle, a portrait of this freedom fighter as well. Savarkar was, of course, a fighter for India’s freedom. Never more effectively than when bloodthirsty terrorists sought to mutilate life in Mumbai in 1993 and then to maim the House of India’s Parliament in 2001.

Source: The Hindu December 05, 2017 18:32 UTC