Savarkar, Ganesh Damodar : (1879-1945) eldest of four children of a Chitpāvan Brahmin couple of Bhagur, near Nāshik in Maharashtra, hence addressed as Bābārao. After the parents’ death he looked after his brothers Narayan & Vināyaka, & sister Maina. The brothers organised the revolutionary Abhinava Bharat Society (which in 1905 arranged a public burning of English goods) & the Mitra Mela, he headed both organisations after Vināyaka left for England in May 1906. In April 1907, he published 2000 copies of Vināyaka’s Marathi biography of Mazzini which outlined the guerrilla tactics developed by Swami Ramdas & Shivaji & suggested similar ways of tackling the British: e.g. a network of bomb-factories & stores for arms smuggled from abroad. In 1909, he was transported for life for patriotic songs. This led to the murders of Wyllie & Jackson (q.v.). Later, Baba worked for the Rāshṭriya Swayamsevak Sangh & Sanskritized Hindi in Devanāgri to cleanse Urduised Hindi. [Shyamji Krishnavarma…., Indulal Yāgnik, Bombay, 1950; Internet]

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Six > Nandanam

... Napoleon. When he was in England Iyer had become an 'extremist'—especially after the Curzon Willie 1 episode—and in France he came close to Madame Bhaicaji Cama, Shyamji Krishna Verma and Veer Damodar Savarkar, revolutionaries all. In France WS Iyer learnt French and read in the original the War Memoirs of Napoleon. At Pondicherry, based on Napoleon's method of warfare, he produced a treatise on military... given this job too to Abhay. A few days later he had a visit from Ganesha himself! "A radiating golden Ganeshji with a football in his hand ..." 1 Vellakara in Tamil means a white man. Ganesh, Ganapati, Pillayar, Vinayaka, and so on are names of the same god. 2 See Mothers Chronicles, Book two. 3 The New Indian Express, 20 January 1999. Page 208 ... suffer from paucity of funds." Abhay described to us his dream. "A smiling Shri Ganeshji looked at me with love and affection. I bowed down to him. He raised his hand and blessed me and disappeared." Ganesh kept his word. The work at Nandanam never suffered from lack of money. But all this was still in the womb of the future. Let us go back a few decades. Poet Bharati, during his exile, often ...