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.