#VDSavarkar was a man of intense contradictions. The man who wrote sensitive, touching #poetry like 'Ne Majasi Ne...' and 'Majhe Mrutyupatra' later become emotionally frigid towards others, including his family members.
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#Savarkar #SavarkarJayanti #Savarkar_Jayanti #history
For instance, when his infant daughter Shalini passed away during his internment at #Ratnagiri, visitors who came to condole her death were surprised to see his wife Yamunabai (Mai) grieve while #Savarkar was passively at work elsewhere in the house.
"Why did you come in this intense heat?" he asked the surprised visitors, adding that they had done their best to save their child but could not.
After #Savarkar's arrest, his father in law had to face intense trouble at the hands of his authorities.
Yamunabai grieved during her husband's incarceration at the Cellular Jail in the Andamans. But after his discharge from the prison, his treatment of her was not humane. This is illustrated by several accounts and a touching short story by the author Vidyadhar Pundalik 'Sati'
Pundalik, who incidentally was a Savarkarite, wrote a barely disguised allegory on Savarkar and his family life. For instance, the protagonist is called 'Kakarao' while #Savarkar was called Tatya or Tatyarao.
Savarkar refused to meet his wife when she was on her deathbed. Also did not allow her body to be brought home, asked his son to cremate her sans any religious rituals in the electric crematorium. However, his son #Vishwas performed some rites without informing his father.
Savarkar was agnostic but his wife was a believer. The maverick Savarkarite Laxman Ganesh ak Kartarsingh Thatte (he had converted to Sikhism) performed some rituals later.
The short story 'Sati' is a masterpiece. Was left with moist eyes after finishing it. Very touching. Once sentence will stay with the sensitive, discerning reader.
Kakarao's wife tells her daughter (she is the narrator here), the Andamans killed his fears, but it also killed the human inside him.
Savarkarites came down heavily on Pundalik. Court cases, morchas, threats. Eventually, he was forced to apologise. We see figures in terms of black and white. Refuse to even acknowledge shades of grey. An imperfect society trying to create perfect, ideal heroes.
*became
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