Comparing V.D Savarkar and Bhagat Singh
It is considered incredibly trendy for snide leftists to mock Savarkar as a coward and/or a stooge of the British. And Bhagat Singh as genuine anti imperialist hero. The motivations for these are obvious. Savarkar is the intellectual and sipirital godfather of the Hindu Right while Bhagat Singh was avowed athiest and socialist quoted Lenin in a favorable manner. And yes truth be told the Hindu right hardly has any heroes that could be considered freedom fighters but what exactly does the left have apart from Gandhi and Nehru? who at best irritated the British Sardar Patel and Bose dont really fit into any neat paradigms at all . A fact which frustrates both the left and the right. But what exactly did Bhagat Singh do? I am sorry to ask such rude questions about a beloved figure not just among the left but the right as well. But it has to be done. TLDR: he shot the wrong British guy in retaliation for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. He was supposed to kill the chief of Police of Lahore