Reconciling Gandhi and Savarkar: The Paranjape Way | M.R. Narayan Swamy

Biographer Vikram Sampath may be convinced that the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi and Veer Savarkar remain the perfectly irreconcilable polar opposites that would never meet. But prolific writer and veteran academic Makarand R. Paranjape disagrees. The feud between the two men of history, he is equally confident, was actually a family quarrel as they were both fellow freedom fighters and professedly fellow Hindus.

And so, the unending antagonism between Gandhi and Savarkar needs a new approach, Paranjape argues forcefully in his new provocative book,