Veer Savarkar
Veer Savarkar Smrutidin (Veer Savarkar Memorial Day) is the Death Anniversary of Veer Savarkar (Vinayak Damodar Savarkar). In 2022, Veer Savarkar Smrutidin is March 8 as per Hindu Calendar (Tithi Anusar) and 26 February as per Gregorian Calendar (Date Anusar).
Veer Savarkar had left his physical abode on Phalguna Shukla Shashti as per all Hindu Calendars.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966), known among followers by the honorific prefix Veer, was an Indian freedom fighter, politician, activist, and writer. He developed the Hindu nationalist cultural and political ideology of Hindutva while imprisoned at Ratnagiri in 1922. He was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha.
Veer Savarkar joined the Hindu Mahasabha and popularized the term Hindutva (Hinduness), previously coined by Chandranath Basu, to create a collective “Hindu” identity as an essence of Bharat (India).
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born on 28 May 1883 in the Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin Hindu family of Damodar and Radhabai Savarkar in the village of Bhagur, near the city of Nashik, Maharashtra. He had three other siblings namely Ganesh, Narayan, and a sister named Maina.
He wrote 38 books in English and Marathi, consisting in many essays, two novels called Moplah Rebellion and the Transportation, poetry and plays, the best-known of his books being his historical study The Indian war of independence, 1857 and his pamphlet Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?.