In this podcast, Purushottam Agrawal interviews Arun Shourie on his latest book “The New Icon: Savarkar and the Facts?“. Along with the book, they also discuss Savarkar – his ideas, his hatred for Gandhi and what he thought of himself.

Prof. Purushottam Agrawal is a writer, historian, political commentator, public intellectual, former member at UPSC and former professor.

Arun Shourie is a journalist, author, economist and former Minister of communication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ftI1BkSn0&t=249s

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Gandhi’s Assassin. By Dhirendra K Jha

The Supreme Court, Gandhi and the RSS

The Oceanic Circle: Talk on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 155th birthday

Arun Shourie on Savarkar, Hindutva and polarisation in India | BBC News India

How Savarkar Escaped Conviction For Gandhi’s Assassination

To criticise Savarkar or not: A false dilemma

History in the Service of Hindutva

If speaking against Savarkar is antinational, then put me in jail: Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao

Gujarat court acquits former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in custodial torture case

Calicut professor booked for Facebook post praising Godse. (Withdraw the case)

Delhi Police Archive on RSS activity in October-December 1947

‘Our Ram is Gandhi’s Ram, Your Ram is Nathuram.’ John Brittas’ fiery speech in Parliament 

The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Inquiry Commission Report (1969)

Stand Up, Say No

Khuda Hafiz

खुदा हाफ़िज़

The Crisis of Ideology

The Lady Vanishes

विचारधारा का संकट

गांधी का समुद्री वर्तुल

ગાંધીજીનું સમુદ્રી વર્તુળ

Satyagraha: An answer to modern nihilism

The search for new time: Ahimsa in an age of permanent war

Duty of disloyalty. M. K. Gandhi (1930)

The compass we lost

Rahul Pandita: What I learned from G. N. Saibaba

A Family Breaks Its Silence: Shocking Details Emerge In death of presiding judge in Sohrabuddin Trial

Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya’s Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths

Constitutional principles go for a toss in the criminal law of search and seizure

Death of Judge Loya: A critical examination of the ECG and post-mortem demonstrates the failings of the Supreme Court verdict

Where Are the ‘Don Quixotes’ of Indian Academia?

Witch-hunt against Tejaswini Desai highlights dangers of being a teacher in India today

Professor’s Harassment by ABVP Shows Near-Complete Takeover of Universities by RSS-BJP

Apoorvanand; Gauhar Raza: The bully that is destroying India’s academic culture