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  • The Night of the Vow: How Savarkar Became a Revolutionary

    The Night of the Vow: How Savarkar Became a Revolutionary

    One night, in the town of Bhagur, a boy stood before a statue of the armed Goddess Durga. This boy was Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and the vow he took that night would ignite a revolutionary desire to stand up against British colonial rule in India.  The immediate spark was the execution of the Chapekar brothers…