Rogue mindes; phoney rebels ...

We need to be vigilant of those who wear garb of 'self stamped pillars of democracy, nation and social way of life they think is their religion' because it is they who find more opportunities to throw tantrums based on self declared emancipation from all social norms and controls, even if caught nakedly misguiding.

I remember a newspaper in eighties used to be distributed 'free' at Churchgate to hundreds of commuters crossing over to Asiatic side only to flame trouble with juicy news about tiff between then PM and the President. The end of parliamentary democracy was being pictured. For years ( not just days or weeks - 2-3 years ) it featured every day on front page news articles about its version of corruption at high places (a business house and PM were in the center). All these. news from very 'eminent award winning independent' senior journalist/editor and equally 'respected' finance scribe. The hot news, followed for years, could never be proven. However the same journalists (?) officially later revealed themselves to had been prominent members of a beneficiary political party...!!

So much for independence of media !!

( Years old draft was left unpublished)

Savarkar

 We have phrase in hindi on बंद मुट्ठी लाख की। 

It works. It creates mystery, makes a puzzle out of curiosity. Keeps opponents guessing and sometimes making them wary of an open confrontation. Many a times it makes enemy yield fearing unknown. 

Savarkar to a large extent used to be that enigma in public minds, now he has been put in glass casket by his followers letting opponents throw stones at. 

In zeal to raise stature of the gentleman, they created stories which were hard to believe and difficult to defend against available facts, and let these proliferate wide and far on wings of bulbuls of social media. They did more damage to the man who till recent past, used to be well known for his bravery and patriotism, of course due more for that close fist confining information like mystery,  than for supposed treachery and alignment to British cause, now people have starting attributing to him. Due to lack of provocation the opponents who till recently had been keeping mum and under reactive over the past of a well known leader of yore, mainly because speaking ill of a dead is not known to be taken well in our society, have now come out in open with swords brandishing over plethora of statements and historical events about him. 

It would be uncalled for loss of face for some and avoidable.