I found this paper very interesting for many reasons. First, because Vinayak went through so much trouble just to find the meaning of his name and what not. It was also interesting because he was basically named by a stranger and his parents decided to keep the name. I also found it strange that Dr. Parchure would name boys after Savarkar as a strategy to promote the ideologies that Savarkar had andnationalism. Even though the boys that he named probably did not know the origin of their name, Dr. Parchure, in my opinion, placed a lot of unwanted responsibility (in a sense) on these boys to promote nationalism and carry out Savarkar's legacy.
Then I thought that Dr. Parchure's denial of having any involvment in the assissination of Gandhi was a little hypocritical. He was always down for Savarkar and his ideas, but he did not take any responsibility for carrying out part of Savarkar's ideas. (well that's what I got from it, I could be wrong.)
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